Vivar del Cid No. 2

The entry for this church in the Spanish Wikipedia [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Miguel_Arcángel,_Vivar_del_Cid_(Burgos)] [accessed 9 November 2025] mentions a small baptismal font of Romanesque style now being used as holy-water stoup: "una pila bautismal de estilo románico, lisa, pequeña y con gallones, hoy en día la utilizan como pila de agua bendita". Actually there are two vessels inside the church: the actual font in use and the holy-water stoup mentioned above [cf. BSI entry for Vivar del Cid No. 1 for a full description and images of the font]. The stoup is also noted and illustrated in the Camino del Cid entry for this church [https://www.caminodelcid.org/servicios/pila-bautismal-de-vivar-del-cid-616924] [accessed 9 November 2025]; it is described as a font, not a stoup, very eroded, and its location given at the entranceway: "A la entrada de la iglesia de San Miguel, a la derecha, hay una pila bautismal cuya copa, muy desgastada, es de apariencia románica. Desconocemos su origen." The object is of size mostly associated with holy-water stoups, not medieval fonts; it is probably of a composite nature, consisting of a round basin, roughlly hemispherical in shape, decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and a pattern of concave ribs below -or, are they an arcade?-, all around; it is raised on a round moulded pedestal base; very worn and eroded all over. There is no evidence of a cover anchorings at the upper rim and there appears to be no drain in the basin. The claim that this was the original Romanesque font and is now used as stoup [cf. supra] would be very difficult to mainain based on the evidence; rather, it was always a stoup; its dating, considering the likelyhood of being composite, partly probably in the late-medival period.