Villaespasa / Villa Sparsa / Villaspassa

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: notice the two staples from an old cover anchoring

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: at the four corners of the lower base, either broken off or much eroded now; they were probably leaves originally

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vine

"banda de zarcillos –aquí simplemente insinuados, rematados en espiral y carentes del preciosismo de otros ejemplares' [source: Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VILLAESPASA.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021]]

Scene Description: "banda de zarcillos –aquí simplemente insinuados, rematados en espiral y carentes del preciosismo de otros ejemplares' [source: Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VILLAESPASA.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021]]

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design element - motifs - vine

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view of basin

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in WikiBurgos [www.burgos.es/provincia/localidad/villaespasa] [accessed 12 July 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in WikiBurgos [www.burgos.es/provincia/localidad/villaespasa] [accessed 12 July 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - north side - retable

"retablo del siglo XVI con un San Martín y cinco buenas pinturas" [source: Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021] ]

Scene Description: "retablo del siglo XVI con un San Martín y cinco buenas pinturas" [source: Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021] ]

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the large damage and the crude repair

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the large damage and the crude repair

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - upper view

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in its enclosure in the northwest corner of the nave, beneath the gallery

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

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view of stoup

Scene Description: it is located in a corner, against the west wall of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17007VIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia de Mérida

Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida

Church Location: Calle Iglesia, Villaespasa 06650, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N-234, 5 km NNE of Hortigüela, 15 km NW of Salas de los Infantes, 43 km SE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca Sierra de la Demanda

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) as a late-Romanesque font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a vine at the sides, and a pattern of broad ribs below; raised on a short round stem and a round to square lower base that may be of later date. The basin itself looks very weathered. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021] notes: "Su iglesia, un poco en alto y aislada, está dedicada a santa Eulalia. Es gótica [...] La pila es románica, partida por cenefa vegetal, con gallones, pie cilíndrico y base cuadrada". The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VILLAESPASA.pdf] [accessed 12 July 2021] described the font: "un tardío ejemplar de pila bautismal de traza románica, aunque su talla a trinchante delata una tardía cronología, probablemente ya dentro del siglo XIII. Labrada en un bloque de mediocre caliza y fracturada, su copa es semiesférica, de 110 cm de diámetro ×67 cm de altura, interpretando con seco estilo el esquema decorativo de la mayoría de las pilas bautismales serranas: bocel en la embocadura, banda de zarcillos –aquí simplemente insinuados, rematados en espiral y carentes del preciosismo de otros ejemplares– y gallones en la zona inferior. Se alza sobre un basamento de arenisca de 37 cm de altura, compuesto de tenante cilíndrico y basa con lengüetas sobre plinto." No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.1, -3.4

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 6′ 0″ N, 3° 24′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 466741 4660834

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (basin) -- sandstone (base)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*

Basin Total Height: 67 cm*

Height of Base: 37 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm [calculated]

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]

REFERENCES

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009