Espinosa de Cervera No. 2

The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_ESPINOSA_DE_CERVERA.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] reports two items of our interest: a font and a holy-water stoup that is described as Romanesque and made of limestone: "A los pies de la nave del evangelio se encuentra la pila bautismal (100 cm de diámetro × 94 cm de altura) formada por una copa semiesférica decorada con una moldura sogueada en la base y una serie de arcos de medio punto en el resto. Frente a la puerta de la entrada y adosada a la columna del segundo tramo hay un pila aguabenditera románica. Es de piedra caliza y está decorada en tres de sus caras con dobles arcos de medio punto que llevan tallado en sus enjutas un motivo triangular." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] notes: "El ábside es románico, con columnas, ventanal, ajedrezado, canes y bolas repetidas. Los capiteles interiores son de 1087. La portada es también románica. lo mismo que la torre, cuadrada, clásica, con ventanales gemelos a los cuatro lados y remate de tipo de almena […] La pila es románica, con arcos insinuados y pie cónico. la de agua bendita es un capitel visigótico con pie del siglo XVI." Recorded in a 2003 drawing by Mariano Sebastian Moreno as a "pila" [www.sebasplumillasromanico.net/] [accessed 10 June 2009]. A holy-water stoup of a composite nature located inside the church now; it consists of a rectangular basin of marble beleived to be of the Visigothic period, decorated with a pattern of framed saltire motifs all around the upper sides, with a blind arcade of round arches on columns with capitals on the lower sides; the bottom part is damaged and does not permit to see whether the columns of the arcade had bases as well; this basin has been mounted on a much later base of two marked volumes: the upper half is baluster-shaped with a floriated upper end; the lower half is square with moulded ends and panels on the sides. It appears to have been used as a holy-water stoup for many years in this church; it is now anclosed in in tight metal grid on four sides. [cf. Index entry for Espinosa de Cervera No. 1 for a late-Romanesque font in this church]