Melgar de Fernamental
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Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 6 July 2016)
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes - Holy Ghost above
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animal - bird - eagle?
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coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: a swan, etc.
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information
Scene Description: on the font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Cristina Sanchez
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view of church exterior
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Cristina Sanchez
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view of font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the chapel fashioned as baptistery
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Cristina Sanchez
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07742MEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asuncion de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Francisco Gil y Pablos, 21. 09100 Melgar de Fernamental, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 37 21 41
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the N-120, near Osorno (la Mayor), 50 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel
Date: ca. 1560?
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez for her photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: 16th-17thC church of enormous size
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a footless baptismal font of the Renaissance period. The baptismal font consists of a polygonal basin with tapering sides decorated with scenes, symbols and motifs; on the front panel is the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan in a crowded scene: Christ in the centre, the Baptist on the right, the angel on the left and the Holy Ghost above; the panels are framed with slender columns ending up in crocketed pinnacles; the upper rim area is busily decorated with vegetal motifs and roll moulding, all very deteriorated. Contrary to Bilbao's statement [cf. supra] the font is raised on a large splaying octagonal base; it may have been semi-hidden in the flooring at the time [ca. 1996]. No cover present. An information notice posted on the font describes it as late-Gothic, ca. 1560, and mentions the Baptism of Christ on it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.405278, -4.243056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 24′ 19″ N, 4° 14′ 35″ W
UTM: 30T 397708 4695524
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996