Cillaperlata No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 23116CIL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista [demolished]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: [NB: locattion of the demolished church] Barrio de Arriba, 09213 Cillaperlata, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: 12thC(?) church; demolished early-20thC; few materials [corbels? / capitals?] survived and were moved to Burgos Cathedral

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Two other churches here have disappeared, and with them their fonts. One was the parish church of the upper 'barrio' in the village, a Romanesque church dedicated to John the Baptist; it was demolished in the early-20th century. the other is said to have been the Monasterio de San Juan de la Hoz, of the Benedictine Order (re-built in the 11thC on an existing late-Visigothic one documented in the 8th century; only a few ruins remain now [for details see entries in Condado de Castilla [www.condadodecastilla.es/cultura-sociedad/arte/monasterio-de-san-juan-de-la-hoz-en-cillaperlata/] [accessed 28 January 2021] and in Montacedo [http://tierrasdeburgos.blogspot.com/2010/03/cillaperlata-y-el-antiguo-monasterio-de.html] [accessed 28 January 2021]