San Miguel de Cornezuelo
Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 September 2005)
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animal - bird?
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human figure - head
Scene Description: like the other three 'protrusions' in the lower base this is an uncommon decoration; were these added to the font later? this is defeinitely a human head, a clean-shaven youth(?) in an inverted position
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human figure - head
Scene Description: or, is it the fragment of a cherub?
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unidentified
Scene Description: was this another human head originally?
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanMiguelDeCornezuelo20110507112104p1110735.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - corbel
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanMiguelDeCornezuelo20110507111924p1110726.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - corbel
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanMiguelDeCornezuelo20110507111914p1110724.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanMiguelDeCornezuelo20110507112153p1110736.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - west porch and portal
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Scene Description: presumably St Michael the Archangel, patron saint of this church, but the beast is definitely a lion -lovely rendered tail- that seems to be giving the sword-wielding angel a good fight
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10956COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel de San Miguel de Cornezuelo
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: San Miguel de Cornezuelo, Valle de Manzanedo, Gurgos, Soain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-5643, between the N-623 (SW) and the N-232 (NE), NE of Escalada, in the municipality of Vallle de Manzanedo, about 85 km N of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Las Merindades
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, on the N side of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and to Cristina Sanchez for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: church dated 1145; belonged to the monastery of Santa María de Rioseco in the 13thC
Font Notes:
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Described in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ), which points the possibility that the four spur-like motifs at the lower base may have attempted a representation of the Tetramorphos: a human face, a lion protome [NB: not really], a bird and one other almost completely gone. Baptismal font of simple cauldron style, consisting of a quasi-hemispherical basin with plain sides raised on a round moulded base and a square lower base with a crude head at each angle [NB: there is something odd about these heads: they appear to have been carved later or, perhaps, recarved at a later date]; the font cover is flat and plain, probably modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 53` 43`` N, 3º 43` 41`` W
UTM: 30T 440895 4749766
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
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-