Rioparaiso / Río Paraíso / Rio Parayso / Rioparaizo / Rioparaíso / Rioparayso

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2021)
Results: 19 records
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: this moulding appears to be part of basin block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2021)
design element - patterns - ribbed
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: with the road sign in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MottaW, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rioparaiso-san-salvador-6.JPG] [accessed 16 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rioparaíso. Vista panorámica desde Palazuelos de Villadiego. Al fondo cima de La Raposera."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MottaW, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rioparaiso-panoramica-1.JPG] [accessed 16 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - baptistery
view of church interior - baptistery
view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the alcove that houses the font is located in the right [north] wall, opposite the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2021)
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
view of stoup in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 14803RIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesai Parroquial de El Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: Calle la Iglesia, 3, 09124 Rioparaíso, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-6218, and the C-627, near Palazuelos de Villadiego, in the municipality and 14 km NNW of Villadiego, 60 km NW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel, N wall
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church is Gothic; modified 16th, 17th 18thC
Font Notes:
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The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 22 July 2021] notes: "Tiene su iglesia dedicada a El Salvador y es renacentista [...] La pila, buena, es románica con gallones y avenerada por dentro, con pie cilíndrico y base moldurada". Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) as a limestone baptismal font of the Romanesque period consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with broad ribbed pattern on the outside, a moulding where it meets the plain cylindrical stem, and lower base consisting of two parallel mouldings. The plain wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 412521 4717133
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*
Basin Total Height: 86 cm*
Height of Base: 36 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 122 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain; modern