Santa Cruz de Mena
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25970CRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century (?), Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de Santa Teresa de Santa Cruz de Mena
Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Teresa of Avila [aka Teresa of Jesus, Theresa]
Previous Font Location(s): Iglesia del Monaterio de San Julián? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: the present 'ermita', noted in Madoz' Dicionario of 1847, appears to have replaced some functions of the disappeared Iglesia de San Julián
Church Address: 09585 Santa Cruz de Mena, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-554, 4 km WSW of Viérgol, 6 km NE of Villasana de Mena, in the municipality of Valle de Mena, close to the border with the Basque Country
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Additional Comments: re-cycled font? [cf. FontNtes]
Town/City Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Mena
Font Notes:
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Information relayed from Pedro Lozano Huerta by Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 October 2025) notes and illustrates a baptismal font located now in the Ermita de Santa Teresa in Santa Cruz de Mena but said to be originally from the 18th-century re-building of what had originally bee the church of the monastery of San Julián; the re-built church was mostly destroyed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) bombings, and remains of it ended up in a number of places [cf. infra]: "Ermita de Sta Teresa- Sta Cruz de Mena- Burgos- Pila Bautismal. En esta ermita de Sta Teresa de Sta Cruz de Mena, a las afueras del pueblo, en un bonito rincón, restaurada por los escasos vecinos, se encuentra una bonita y bien cuidada pila Bautismal románica con gajones en el exterior y avenerada en el interior. Según parece, esta pila es el único resto románico que queda de la anterior Iglesia de San Julián, de la que en la actualidad solo queda un muro occidental de la nave y el tímpano en la Colección Fontaneda que publiqué hace ya un tiempo en el castillo de Ampudia (Palencia). La Iglesia de San Julián , en en alto, en el camino que lleva al desaparecido pueblo de Llano, hoy con construcciones para guardar ganado, fue destruida, bombardeada en la guerra civil y se había construido en el siglo XVIII aprovechando los sillares del antiguo Monasterio de San Julián y algunos elementos románicos de los que adjunto alguna fotografía de la diputación de Burgos y alguna foto mía de lo que queda de la antigua Iglesia bombardeada. Hablando con la señora que amablemente me enseñó la ermita, me comentaba que de pequeña jugaban encima de la piedra( el tímpano de la puerta de acceso al campanario) que luego fue vendida a los Fontaneda por el cura por poco más de sesenta mil pesetas, de lo que no se sabe nada es de los canecillos y capitel." The font consists of a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with convex ribbing on the outside and convex ribs on the inside, raised on a squat round base part of which appears to have been semi-buried in the modern flooring.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for the photographs of this church and font, and to him and Mikel Unanue for their help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 481029 4773752
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining