Ona / Oña / Tamayo

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: "Portal de la iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Oña."
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Image Source: digital photograph 20 June 2021 by Rowanwindwhistler
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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the church and the town hall, cheek by jowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Rogelio HM, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2014 by Luis Rogelio HM
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eduardo Tamauo Aguirre, 2009
Image Source: screenshot in Eduardo Tamayo Aguirre [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

design element - patterns - ribbed - flat ribs or slats

Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eduardo Tamauo Aguirre, 2009
Image Source: screenshot in Eduardo Tamayo Aguirre [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 26228MTT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Previous Font Location(s): font originally from the Iglesia de San Miguel of Tamayo [now abandoned]
Church Notes: 12thC church; much modified 16th and 18thC
Church Address: Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 09530 Oña, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Oña is located off the BU-V-5203, 2 km E of Tamayo, 57 km NNE of Burgos capital
Historical Region: Comarca de la Bureba
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (moved to a nearby village)
Font Notes:
Baptismal font consisting of a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with flat ribs all around, raised on a squat round base. The font was originally from the Iglesia de San Miguel of Tamayo [now abanoned and in semi-ruins], but reported in Oña by 2009.
The font is noted and illustrated in Eduardo Tamayo Aguirre's Tamayo y su historia: Burgos - Año 967 [TAMAYO Y SU HISTORIA pila.pdf]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Novella for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 466120 4731440
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.734722, -3.413889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 44′ 5″ N, 3° 24′ 50″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone ?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: round