Rabanera del Pinar

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2020)
Results: 11 records
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
design element - patterns - diaper, nail-head or saltire
Scene Description: as seen here, the motifs are very worn and resemble a large flat X on its side in a square, but they could have originally been dog-tooh, nail-head or saltires inside squares
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2020)
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - diagonal ribs
Scene Description: all around the very short base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2020)
view of base
view of basin
view of basin - underbowl
view of church exterior in context - south view
view of church interior - looking east
view of font
view of font
Scene Description: the large repair may have been needed for a missing churck of the upper side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 17003RAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: calle la Iglesia, 14, 09660 Rabanera del Pinar, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N-234, 25-30 km SSE of Salas de los Infantes, about 50 km SE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Sierra de la Demanda
Font Location in Church: Inside he church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church 16thC; restored 2002
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) with date in the early 13th century and some similarity to Soria fonts in the band of intersecting round arches that appears below a running vine; the basin is roughly hemispherical, with a roll moulding at the upper rim, somewhat damaged; a wide band containing an acanthus (?) vine covers the sides, the arches below; on a squat circular base decorated with torsade on the sides. Noted in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV, p. 2682 [www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-de-rabanera-del-pinar-9119.aspx] [accessed 25 October 2020]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41º 53' 35.90'' N, 3º 11' 37.55'' W
UTM: 30T 483406 4636842
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009