Torme

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 08031TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martin de Torma
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: church modified 15th, 16th, 17th
Church Address: Ctra. Villacomparada, 2, 09555 Torme, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Torme is located off the BU-562, 6 km NNW of Villarcayo, about 80 km N of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Merindad de Castilla la Vieja
Additional Comments: disappeared font: sold under the supervision of the archbishop of Burgos [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described in Pérez Carmona (1959 and its reprint in 1974) although the font had already disappeared by the first date. Bilbao (1996) reports a local witness' evidence -Alejandro Orive Salazar, former parish priest of Torme- how the baptismal font at Torme had been sold for the sum of 6,000 pesetas under the supervision of the then archbishop of the diocese, Luciano Pérez Platero between 1954 and 1956. [NB: Bilbao mentions this font in the context of the analysis of the representation of the Apostles on baptismal fonts; it is not explicitly reported that the font at Torme included such iconography]. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) reports that no trace was found at the time of the visit of the 12th-century font decorated with scenes of the story of St. Martin: "No hemos encontrado ni rastro de la pila bautismal, “del siglo XII, con la tradición de San Martín en relieves”, que recogían Julián García Sáinz de Baranda y José Pérez Carmona."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 454211 4759765
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.989167, -3.561667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 59′ 21″ N, 3° 33′ 42″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 194 fn191
  • 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: 2054
  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
  • Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974, [?]