Villoviado
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2019
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 June 2019)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 3 arches - columns with capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - architectural - column - torsade
Scene Description: by itself, under the middle arch, on the east-facing side
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the two spandrels created by the three arch-heads
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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design element - patterns - striated
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2013 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villoviado20130416125226SAM_2002.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2013 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villoviado20130416124714P1170264.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font
Scene Description: this is probably the northwest side of the basin, totally plain
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - east side
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - north side
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - northeast side
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view of font - south side
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view of font - southeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: beneath the west gallery
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2017 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17008VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Vitores
Church Patron Saints: St. Victor [aka Vitores]
Church Location: Plaza de la Iglesia, s/n, 09348 Villoviado, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: 947 17 09 48
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the B-UV-9002, 7 km SE of Lerma, its municipality, between Rabé de los Escuderos and Castrillo de Solarana, 45 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: originally 12thC; present church 16th, modified 19th.
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) as a Romanesque font in this Baroque church; it consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on a plain round base; rope moulding at the upper rim of the basin; on the sides, at the front only, an arcade of only three round arches on columns with capitals and bases; in the central arch, standing by itself, a torsade column without arch on it; leaves in the spandrels. No entry found for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed October 2022] reports a Romanesque font in the Renaissance church: "iglesia, dedicada a San Vitores, mártir, renacentista, de dos naves [...] La pila es románica, de vaso, con arcos incisos y base cónica".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 441802 4647794
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (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