Butrera nr. Villarcayo No. 2

Image copyright © Cristina Abril, 2009
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 Jan 2010)
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed or striated
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 15885BUT
Object Type: Stoup?
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Antigua
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the Merindad de Sotoscueva, off (W) the CL-629, NW of Torme, 11 km from Villarcayo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Abril for her photograph of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup, perhaps from the later period of the church; it consists of an egg-cup shaped basin with striated surface, raised on a truncated cone stem with a lower moulding, and a round-to-square moulded lower base [cf. Index entry for Butrera No. 1, for the baptismal font of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round