Bugedo No. 3 / Bujedo de Candepajares

Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) and the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) report two baptismal fonts in this monastery, now used as garden ornaments. One is located near the entrance to the building and is described as having a ribbed basin. [NB: we have no information about the origin of this font, but the Enciclopedia… (ibid.) notes that neither of these two fonts is the one originally from Foncea, said to have been moved to Bujedo ca. 1968]. [cf. Index entry for Bujedo No. 2 for the other font in this monastery; and Bujedo No. 1 for a font at the parish church of Santa Maria [NB: the monastery fonts are not mentioned in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )]. On-site notes: an object roughly fitting this description is found in the outer gardens of the monastery, among the trees and shrubbery; the object has the shape of a typical font of the area: a hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim , and a pattern of wide ribs around the basin sides and underbowl; it is raised on a square base with protrusions at the angles that may have been ball motifs or heads, perhaps, but the surface is now too worn to discern the original work. The inner well of the basin has been fitted with hardware to turn it into a fountaing that spouts water from a single outlet. The stone is covered in mosses and lichens.