Hierro

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

Results: 24 records

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023 -- showing the centre drain hole

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church exterior - ruins - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church exterior - ruins - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church exterior - ruins - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Román, Hierro [...] Iglesia abandonada antiguamente aneja de la parroquia de Quintana Entrepeñas (Merindad de Cuesta Urría)." -- the church in 2017

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © VerPueblos, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 9 November 2017 in VerPueblos [https://www.verpueblos.com/castilla+y+leon/burgos/hierro/foto/1327136/] [accessed 17 February 2022]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the church in February 2022 -- the chancel still stands and retains its roof, but the main roof has collapsed since 2017

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph February 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 February 2022)

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church interior - looking east - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church interior - looking east - detail

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the church in February 2022 -- the belfry still stands and retains its roof, but the main roof has collapsed since 2017; the font is discernible among the debris at the far end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph February 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 February 2022)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023 -- with the old font now located at the west end of the ruined nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the church in February 2022 -- covered in debris at the west end of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph February 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 February 2022)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023 -- the old font now located at the west end of the ruined nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of object

Scene Description: a holy-water stoup? -- the ruined church in January 2023

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

view of object in context

Scene Description: the ruined church in January 2023 -- a holy-water stoup?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 January 2023)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23760HIE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Román Mártir [abandoned / in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: 09549 Hierro, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the BU-550, in the municipality of Merindad de Cuesta-Urria, 8 km ESE of Villarcayo, 88 km NNE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Merindad de Cuesta-Urria, Partido de Villarcayo
Font Location in Church: Inside the ruined church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font, taken in two different visits to the ruined church
No entry found for this village in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 17 February 2022] notes: "iglesia, dedicada a San Román, mártir, de una nave de pequeñas proporciones [...] La pila es rústica". By 2017 this church was abandoned and very dilapidated. By February 2022 the roof had caved in and the whole of the interior is open to the elements, covered in debris and rubble; the font here still stands, now covered in the debris, towards the west end of the nave [cf. ImagesArea]. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.895822, -3.351494
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53′ 44.96″ N, 3° 21′ 5.38″ W
UTM: 30T 471302 4749306

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining