Mambrillas de Lara / Mambligas / Mamblillas

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Scene Description: Source caption: "un capitel vegetal hoy utilizado como peana de la moderna pila bautismal de la iglesia de Mambrillas de Lara (en este templo se conserva una fragmentada pila gallonada cuya talla a trinchante revela su gótica cronología). Se decora con dos pisos de hojas, las inferiores de puntas dobladas y nervadas y las superiores lisas y rematadas por bolas con caperuza." [NB: shown here vertically flipped from its actual position suporting the basin of the Mambrillas font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/el-romanico/imagenes-romanico/capitel-procedente-hortiguela-ahora-iglesia-mambrillas-lara] [accessed 18 March 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

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Scene Description: Source caption: "un capitel vegetal hoy utilizado como peana de la moderna pila bautismal de la iglesia de Mambrillas de Lara (en este templo se conserva una fragmentada pila gallonada cuya talla a trinchante revela su gótica cronología). Se decora con dos pisos de hojas, las inferiores de puntas dobladas y nervadas y las superiores lisas y rematadas por bolas con caperuza." [NB: shown here in its actual position suporting the basin of the Mambrillas font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image [flipped vertically] in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/el-romanico/imagenes-romanico/capitel-procedente-hortiguela-ahora-iglesia-mambrillas-lara] [accessed 18 March 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

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Scene Description: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista, Mambrillas de Lara, where the composite font is located
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diputación de Burgos, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Diputación de Burgos [https://www.mambrillasdelara.es/galeria/mambrillas-de-lara] [accessed 18 March 2023]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 24616MAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Calle Alta, 25, 09640 Mambrillas de Lara, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (N) N-234, 5 km NW of Hortigüela, about 36 km SE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Alfoz de Lara
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (base) [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Church Notes: 15th-16thC church, late-Gothic and Renaissance
Font Notes:
The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] reports a baptismal font of stone using as base a Romanesque capital mounted upside down; the capital was originally from the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza in Hortigüela: "La pila es lisa con moldura y una especie de capitel románico invertido como pie, procedente del monasterio de San Pedro de Arlanza." The Romanesque capital noted above as being now part of the base of the font in Mambrillas is also mentioned in the entry for Hortigüela in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORTIGÜELA.pdf] [accessed 18 March 2023]: "un capitel vegetal hoy utilizado como peana de la moderna pila bautismal de la iglesia de Mambrillas de Lara (en este templo se conserva una fragmentada pila gallonada cuya talla a trinchante revela su gótica cronología). Se decora con dos pisos de hojas, las inferiores de puntas dobladas y nervadas y las superiores lisas y rematadas por bolas con caperuza." Also noted and illustrated "Capitel procedente de Hortigüela, ahora en la iglesia de Mambrillas de Lara" in [https://www.romanicodigital.com/el-romanico/imagenes-romanico/capitel-procedente-hortiguela-ahora-iglesia-mambrillas-lara] [accessed 18 March 2023]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 461822 4660335

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round