Ventosilla / La Ventosilla / Real Sitio de la Ventosilla, nr. Gumiel de Mercado

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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round

INFORMATION

FontID: 17009VEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Capilla de San Andrés
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: The Finca Real Sitio de la Ventosilla is located in the municipality of Gumiel de Mercado, NW of Aranda de Duero. It is now [2010] property of Bodegas PradoRey
Font Location in Church: Insaide the modern chapel, now Bodegas Prado del Rey
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Valle Barreda (2009) as the font from the parish church of the village that existed in this site until the late medieval period [ca. 1503?]; the church was demolished in the late 1940s, but font survived and is located in the Capilla de San Andrés, inside the private grounds of the Real Sitio de la Ventosilla, Bodegas PradoRey in 2010. The font has a round basin decorated with round arch-heads, and Valle Barreda (ibid.) gives the font at Villanueva de Gumiel as somewhat related to it.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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