San Vicente de Villamezan / San Vicente de Villamezán / Villa Meran
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2025
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover in context
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper rim area
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper rim area
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - interior
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: showing the emplacement of the font
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - double
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: very broad
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
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view of base
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2026
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25931VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century (?), Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Vicente Mártir de Villamezán
Font Location in Church: Inside, at the W end of the nave, beneath tyhe W gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vincent
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church much modified 16thC
Church Address: Poblado San Vicente de Villamezan, 1, 09571 San Vicente de Villamezán, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-642, in the municipality of Valle de Valdebezana, 13 km W of Soncillo, on the S shore of the Embalse del Ebro, 35-40 km NE of Aguilar de Campoo, 91 km N of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarce de la Merindades
Font Notes:
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The church is listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SAN_VICENTE_DE_VILLAMEZÁN.pdf] [accessed 16 November 2025] as originally Romanesque but much modified in the 16th century; the font is not mentioned in it, which may ne an indication that it is considered of the later period. The font consists of a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with a double roll moulding at the upper rim, otherwise plain; raised on a base with a pronounced roll moulding at the top, and a concave ribbed pattern all around the sides below, which is indicative of the later period. It has damage evident in several areas, a large one with loss of stone at the upper rim whwre a metal anchoring for the cover must have split the stone. The present cover is roumnd, flat and plain; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font, and to him and Mikel Unanue for their help documenting it. We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 424387 4758963
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.979566, -3.927362
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 58′ 46.44″ N, 3° 55′ 38.5″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]