Grandival / Grandíval
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptisterio de la iglesia de San Román [...] Vista frontal del baptisterio; presenta tres arcos de medio punto sin decoración y su hueco abocinado cobija una pila bautismal carente de ornamentación"
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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08406] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/56811] [accessed 11 August 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07480GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus (?)
Church Location: C. Mayor, 10, 09217 Grandíval, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the CL-127, in the municipality of Condado de Treviño, 110 km ENE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Condado de Treviño / Comarca de Ebro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery alcove
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church Notes: present church 17thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 11 August 2024]: "Baptisterio de la iglesia de San Román [...] presenta tres arcos de medio punto sin decoración y su hueco abocinado cobija una pila bautismal carente de ornamentación". Described in Bilbao (1994) as a plain medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The church is listed in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_GRANDÍVAL.pdf] [accessed 11 August 2024] but it mentions no font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.733333, -2.733333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 44′ 0″ N, 2° 44′ 0″ W
UTM: 30T 521829 4731237
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994