Cerezo de Rio Tiron No. 3 / Cerasio / Cerezo de Río Tirón / Cerezo de Riotirón / Cerosia / Cesarea

INFORMATION

Font ID: 23108CER

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: [originally from the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Llana?] [in ruins]

Font Location in Church: [now in the Iglesia Parroquial de San Nicolás y Santa María]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: [NB: address of the old church now in ruins] Calle San Vitores, 6A [Barrio de Arriba], 09270 Cerezo de Río Tirón, Burgos, Spain

Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-720, 10 km NE of Belorado, 57 km ENE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca Oca-Tirón

Additional Comments: moved stoup? (probably from the older church)

Font Notes: Click to view

The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 22 January 2021] reports three vessels in Cerezo de Río Tirón, one of which is "pila [...] también románica o incluso prerrománica del agua bendita [...] probablemente traída de la antigua iglesia". [cf. BSI entries for Cerezo de Río Tirón Nos. 1 and 2 for the others]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 488860 4704284

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone