Valmala

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2022)

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the central drain and what appears to be a drastically re-tooling

Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2022)

view of church exterior

Scene Description: the apse of the medieval church is now a side chapel of the 18thC re-building; the new church has a north-south orientation

Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2021 by Montacedo [http://tierrasdeburgos.blogspot.com/2011/07/valmala.html] [accessed 27 October 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the author

view of church exterior - apse

Scene Description: the apse of the original church is now a side chapel after the 18th-19thC re-building

Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2022)

view of font

Scene Description: was this the medieval font originally? did it get similar treatment as the medieval building itself?

Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 24402VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de San Martín Obispo

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Calle Sta. Lucia, 2, 09268 Valmala, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-813, 18 km SSW of Belorado, 43 km E of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca Montes de Oca / Partido de Belorado / Región de Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1200?

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original church ca. 1200(?); re-built 17th-18thC changing the orientation to N-S [NB: José Ángel Aparicio Bastardo [www.academia.edu/41665824/LAS_IGLESIAS_ROMÁNICAS_DE_VALMALA_Y_SAN_CLEMENTE_DEL_VALLE_BURGOS_] [accessed 29 January 2021 points out that the medieval apse was added to the south side of the re-built church's south side, whereas the entry in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com] [accessed 27 October 2022] indicates that the 18thC re-building changed the orientation of the church to N-S]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed October 2022] notes: "De origen románico, su iglesia es ahora, un rectángulo barroco, de una nave y dos capillas románicas con bóveda de cañón [...] La pila, de piedra rosacea, como la mayoría de la iglesia, tiene copa lisa y base cuadrada". There is no mention of a font in the corresponding entry in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com] [accessed 27 October 2022]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here, unless the present font is a totally re-carved and re-shaped version of the ancient one; if they could do what they did with the church itself,...]. The present font is an odd-looking vessel [cf. supra]: a basin of roughly hemispherical shape raised on a squat round base; it gives the impression of having been drastically re-tooled with a modern machine, whatever its original shape was; it has a central drain. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.305278, -3.255

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 18′ 19″ N, 3° 15′ 18″ W

UTM: 30T 478983 4683703

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining