Villasopliz No. 2 / 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: 6 records

design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: on the east side of the stoup basin

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

view of stoup - east 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 stoup - north 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 stoup - northeast 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 stoup - upper view

Scene Description: the stoup is shaped like an old grain mortar

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: 23104VIL
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, on the west side of the south entranceway
Century and Period: , 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"
A large stone holy-water stoup very similar in design to a medieval grain mortar; like the font itseld it appears monolithic, but of two well-distinguished volumes; a bucket-shaped basin with large knobs or semi-columns set at 90-degree angles; there is a floral motif, six-petalled inscribed in a cricle, on the east side; the splaying base is round-to-quadrangular.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 443187 4752640

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 1?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round