Linares de Bricia

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

Results: 20 records

design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: with a band of saw-tooth in between

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 February 2021)

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: a band of, between two rope mouldings

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 February 2021)

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre drain

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: only the tower and part of the roof are visible here, as nature closes in on the semi-abandoned village

Image Source: digital photograph by Montacedo [http://tierrasdeburgos.blogspot.com/2018/02/otros-pueblos-del-silencio-linares-de.html] [accessed 23 February 2021]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the author

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

appears to be located by the steps leading to the chancel, north side -- the pillar to the left [west] is probably the one supporting the chancel arch -- the base is a modern replacement

Scene Description: appears to be located by the steps leading to the chancel, north side -- the pillar to the left [west] is probably the one supporting the chancel arch -- the base is a modern replacement

Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 February 2021)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 September 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 14477LIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua [originally from the old parish church]

Church Patron Saints: [the dedication of the old church not known]

Church Location: Poblado Linares de Bricia, 2, 39232 Linares de Bricia, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-6116, W of the N-623, in the N of the province, in the municipality of Alfoz de Bricia, by the Cantabrian area of Valderredible, 85 km NW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Las Merindades / Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, at the E end of the nave, N side [formerly at the W end?]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) as a group of cognate fonts at: "Lomas de Villamediana, Villamediana de Lomas, Linares de Bricia, Crespos, Quintanilla-Colina y Brullés, [...] Villaescusa de Ebro [now in] San Martín de Elines), Quin[t]anilla de An, Revelillas, Ruijas, Espinosa de Bricia, Repudio y Salcedo." The hemispherical basin decorated with a band of saw-tooth between two rope mouldings is raised on a modern cylindrical base. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) informs that it is the only Romanesque object left from the old parish church. The font is now in the new church. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed September 2022] notes: "La pila bautismal tiene apariencia románica, con dientes de sierra y borde moldurado y tiene base cilíndrica".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 427465

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: 3?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*

Basin Total Height: 47 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

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-