Moriana

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 January 2022)

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: notice the large notch cut into the upper side; these were normally used to insert a side lock for the cover

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the central drain hole

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © maoa, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2016 by maoa [https://www.verpueblos.com/castilla+y+leon/burgos/moriana/foto/1202388/] [accessed 13 January 2022]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 January 2022)

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 January 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23670MOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: c/ Iglesia, 2, 09219 Moriana, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off BU-V-5245, E of the BU-525, in the municipality of Encio, 8 km W of Miranda de Ebro, 76 km NE of Burgos
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Ebro / Partido de Miranda de Ebro, Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: Gothic church
No entry found for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico or in Bilbao (1996). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 13 January 2022] notes: "Tiene dedicada su iglesia San Juan Bautista y es gótica [...] La pila es románica, buena, con gallones y molduras, avenerada por dentro y pie cilíndrico". The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin cecorated with broad convex ribbing on the outside, narrower concave ribs all around the inside; it has a pair of parallel roll mouldings around thr upper rim; a large nothch has been cut on one side of the upper rim side, obviously to fit a side lock for the cover; raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base. Modern wooden cover, round, flat and plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.689996, -3.071312
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41' 24.0" N, 3° 4' 16.7" W
UTM: 30T 493076 4723908

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2
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]