Villasopliz No. 1 / Uilla Sopliz / Villa Seples / Villaseples

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

Results: 16 records

view of base

Scene Description: it is hard to see if there was a joining of two blocks; is the font monolithic or has the joint been covered with cement?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the large notch made to anchor the cover lock

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church exterior - apse - southeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church exterior - norhwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church interior - chancel arch and east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing both the stoup [left/south] and the font [right/north]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the baptismal font is in the southwest corner, by the little window; its modern wooden cover is visible along the north [right] wall, folded in half

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: signalling perhaps the first step of the Via Crucis?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: showing the large notch made to anchor the cover lock

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern wooden cover is partially visible on the right, folded in half

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

view of font in context - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 January 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23103VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eugenia
Church Patron Saints: St. Eugenia of Rome
Church Location: Diseminado Villasopliz, 21, 09558 Villasopliz, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N-232 [without direct access], in the municipality of Valle de Manzanedo, N of Manzanedo, W of San Martín del Rojo, N of Burgos capital [NB: access is from the S, from Manzanedo and the BU-V-5741]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church, font and stoup
Church Notes: Madoz' Dictionary (1989 ed.) gives the dedication as "Santa Eufemia"
Baptismal font of stone with a rounded almost hemispherical basin and a short base, also round; the font appears monolithic, unless the joining of the basin and base has been covered with cement repairs; the font is totally plain, but has on one side of the upper basin a large rectangular notch where a padlock for an earlier cover was anchored. The present wooden font, round, flat and plain, is modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 443187 4752640

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 1?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]