Villamediana de Lomas / Villamediana de Bricia
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
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design element - patterns - sawtooth
Scene Description: irregular and unsuccessfully completed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WikiBurgos, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Villamediana_de_lomas04.jpg] [accessed 7 March 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07140VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martin Obispo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Barrio de Cejancas, Diseminado Villamediana, 21, 39232 Villamediana de Lomas, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the BU-V-6116, S of the CA-274, in the municipality of Alfoz de Bricia, known as "Las Matas", near the border with Cantabria, 10-12 km NW of Polientes, 96 km from Burgos capital [NB: not to be mistaken with Lomas de Vallemediana, located nearby - they are actually two different hamlets]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Alfoz de Bricia / Castilla la Vieja
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Calderón Escalada (1971) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Romanico en Castilla y Leon (2002- ) as a group of cognate fonts at: "Lomas de Villamediana, Villamediana de Lomas, Linares de Bricia, Crespos, Quintanilla-Colina y Brullés, [...] Villaescusa de Ebro [now in] San Martín de Elines), Quin[t]anilla de An, Revelillas, Ruijas, Espinosa de Bricia, Repudio y Salcedo." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 7 March 2021] reports "una pila rústica, lisa, con base cilíndrica", accurate on the rustic note but it is not plain [="lisa"] as this author claims. Like the font at Lomas de Villamediana, nearby, the round basin is between hemispheric and cylindrical, mounted on a crude pedestal base; if there is a plinth it is now hidden in the wooden flooring; the basin is decorated with triangular motifs between two bands of rope moulding; the triangles may have been an attempt by a local mason to imitate the saw-tooth motif so popular in the Valderredible fonts, not a vary succesful one, as the whole font is a very crude work of poor workmanship. No cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com], and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 427856 4748540
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Height of Base: 30 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )
REFERENCES
- Calderón Escalada, José, Campoo: panorama histórico y etnográfico de un valle, Santander: Institución Cultural de Cantabria, Diputación Provincial, 1971, ill. on p. between 40-41
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-, vol. 13, 2210-2211