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

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 17009VEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Capilla de San Andrés, La Ventosilla
Font Location in Church: Inside the modern chapel, now Bodegas Prado del Rey
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 09443 Ventosilla, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The Finca Real Sitio de la Ventosilla is located off the CL-619, in the municipality and 5 km SSW of Gumiel de Mercado, NW of Aranda de Duero. It is now [2010] property of Bodegas PradoRey
Historical Region: Ribera del Duero
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / moved font
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.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 431480 4618597
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.71622, -3.823704
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 42′ 58.39″ N, 3° 49′ 25.33″ W

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, p. 536