Vallejo de Mena

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: above some of the motifs

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - buiding

Scene Description: with graded sides

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: two of them, of different designs, seen here

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Paula Guillot [www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/5909709302/] [accessed 31 January 2012]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 October 2012 by Paula Guillot [www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/5909709302/] [accessed 31 January 2012]

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design element - motifs - windmill

Scene Description: with five arms

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - head

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese? - in a circle - 2

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Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo_%28Vallejo_de_Mena%29] [accessed 31 January 2012]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo_%28Vallejo_de_Mena%29] [accessed 31 January 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph May 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font in context - southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07809VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Lorenzo

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: 09589 Vallejo, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located in the Valle de Mena, 20 km E of Espinosa de los Monteros, in the northern reaches of the province of Burgos

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Santander [or Burgos]

Historical Region: Valle de Mena

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paula Guillot, to Pedro Lozano Huerta and to Mikel Unanue por their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: The church of San Lorenzo dates from the 12th century; it was donated by Doña Endrequina de Mena to the Order of the Knights Templar, who owned it for over a hundred years. -- detailed church dscription w/images in www.arquivoltas.com/15-burgos/02-VallejoMena1.htm [accessed 13 April 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Romanesque baptismal font originally from the Iglesia de San Lorenzo in the town of Vallejo de Mena is at present [novenber 2002] the object of a heated controversy publicised in the DIARIO DE BURGOS (ed. of November 13, 2002). According to Luis Gómez, the parish priest of nearby Vivanco, Gregorio Leciñana Manterola, arranged with a local towtruck driver in May of 1969, to have the baptismal font at Vallejo removed from the church. According to this same source, the font, weighing about 1,500 kg., was dragged out of the church using a cable from the towtruck and later delivered to the garden of a mansion ["palacete"] in Vivanco, whose owners were said to be relatives of Don Gregorio. It is claimed that the priest got 60,000 pesetas at the time for the transaction, although the towtruck driver, Fanio Setién, claimed he never got paid for his service [the driver informed that the font could be seen from the road still at the said garden until a few months earlier]. Again, according to the same source, the parish priest of Vallejo, Bernardino Ortiz, incumbent since 1957, washed his hands of the whole affair and declined to get involved in the matter ["Yo no tengo ni arte ni parte en este tema [...] Yo no sé dónde está [...]". The claims and protests by the neighbours of Vallejo before the bishop of Santander, José María Villaplana, [although in the province of Burgos, Vallejo belongs to the Santander diocesis] to have their baptismal font returned have not been addressed as expected by the neighbours of Vallejo. The neighbours have reported further claims for the disappearance of two other church objects, a valuable painting and the holy-water stoup [the painting is said to have been spotted in a gallery in the city of Bilbao, whereas the stoup is said to be serving as a flower pot in the Hotel Landa, in Burgos capital] [source: www.iespana.es/valledemena/pila%2bautismal.htm]. The baptismal font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated below the upper rim by a band of varied motifs that include a human head, several fleurs-de-lis, four-petal rosettes or Maltese crosses, an omega or trefoiled arch-head (?), etc.; raised on a short moulded circular base, and a round plinth now buried in the flooring. The font is early-Gothic rather than Romanesque. Update 31 January 2012: the font must have been returned to the Vallejo de Mena church at some point before 12 October 2010, date when it was photographed in situ by Paula Guillot [www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/5909709302/] [accessed 31 January 2012]; it was still in the Vallejo de Mena church on 11 November 2012, when it was photographed by Mikel Unanue for BSI. The topic of this font was taken up again by José Manuel Cámara Sáez [http://euskizofrenia.blogspot.com.es/2015/10/por-que-roban-los-curas-cronica-de-un.html] [accessed 19 October 2015] in October 2015. The font is back in the parish church of Vallejo, where it was photographed by Pedro Lozano Huerta in the Spring of 2022 [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.084722, -3.301389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 5′ 5″ N, 3° 18′ 5″ W

UTM: 30T 475493 4770269

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Notes on Measurements: [NB: the only reference to the size so far is that it is almost 1.5 m. in height ["casi metro y medio de altura"], an unlikely measurement unless it includes a plinth of some sort]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain