Church of San Martin. Quintanilla de la Berzosa

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View of the Temple and necropolis rock

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González de Fauve includes, in his study of the monastery of Aguilar de Campo, several news documentaries in which (from 1175 to 1225 approximately) is the monastery acquired estates certain individuals in the Vérez Quintanilla. Among the characters who sign one of these documents (particularly that of 1195) will appear Sunday Abbad de Quintanilla, and after another cleric and a deacon. 

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The building's architectural features as the main structure has a rectangular box consisting muraria navedividida one in two sections of unequal length and rectangular single head. Belfry and also has access to her body attached to its northern side, in the southern sacristy, attached to the head-external ossuary on the south side, between the first and second section of the nave and north porch attached to the supported by a right foot shoe on wooden parapet. Outwardly this internal partitioning is not noticeable because it has a very linear longitudinal development, with nave and at the same height. All this, with the exception of the porch, worked with a great yellow ashlar sandstone grain and fine grain. 

Inside-completely whitewash with cutting of blocks in blue and yellow line socket to observe certain aspects which alone indicate that we have a temple that has been, throughout its long history, transformations. In this regard indicate that at deck level there are several solutions: from the use of the starry vault in the second bay of the nave and apse to the pointed barrel vault in the stretch of the feet, through the simple cover timber in the sacristy, in this case with plaster-and atrium. The current boot cover reused on the wall of an earlier one. 

The last witness of the constructive remodeling is found in the brackets. On the outside corner buttresses the existence of the header (just like in San Cebrian Muda) and sacristy, others of different profiles and thicknesses, dot the walls of the nave. Inside are pilasters, brackets, angles, and a half columns attached to the arch height of the first stage in order to counteract the pressures of covering the first section of the ship. 

Outside, on the western gable is cut out the silhouette of the gable articulated in two trim levels based simply nacelle. The double bottom and the top pointed vain with a single span and crowned pinion pointed nacelle. With the exception of the steeple and cover the rest of the openings or open windows in the building late bills have different types (ogee arches, arrow slits, rectangular, etc). 

We are thus faced with a virtually rebuilt building in which the remains of an early Romanesque structure are almost accidental. Traces of the original Romanesque building from the late twelfth or early thirteenth appear only in the walls of the section of the foot of the nave, belfry, north wall and the interior of the apse where they seem to reuse some blocks. Both renovated sacristy as the court already belong to other phases much later made from the eighteenth century to the present day. The building underwent an overhaul between the XIV and XVII, a special patent renewal in the header and the second installment of the ship. 

In the words of García Guinea, the church of San Martín de Quintanilla of a monument Berzosa is interesting because it tangibly see the impact of the constructive idea with new inventive Romanesque Gothic, very slowly and overcoming traditional forces, will replace the old structure of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ....

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Romanic. Renedo de la Inera

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There are few historical records of these people who have survived. In medieval times it was possible Aguilar village as with its neighbors Rebolledo and the inertia of Valdavia Pomar. In the church was included in the vicariate of Aguilar, itself dependent on the diocese of Burgos. 

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ARCHITECTURE 

The parish church of the inertia Renedo one cruise ship and not come to join the group called by Garcia Guinea as churches of the council. 

In this building reforms can be seen at various times whose chronology is difficult to pin down.Strictly Romanesque, late XII, we can consider the header and the belfry, as the ship is divided into two sections, is already covered with vault with tiercerons. The header consists of a semicircular apse covered with oven and chancel vault with a pointed barrel vault springing from an impost of nacelle. The triumphal arch, also pointed and bent, is based on twin columns and bases of tabs. 

On the outside, the apse has two rectangular buttresses reach the ledge thus divided into three vertical panels. In the central open a window blind today-in arch supported by columns. A sill height fascia runs a cavetto that embraces the entire perimeter apse. 

The north wall had to suffer a crash that forced rebuild masonry in uncertain times. 

At the foot of the temple stands the belfry with two windows and finish straight. A line indicates trim fascia and the drip of the arches. 

The entrance to the church is through a porch added on the side of the cover letter that encompasses a very remade with a pointed arch. 

SCULPTURE

The sculptural decoration of the temple is located in the apse window, the columns of the triumphal arch and corbels of the cornice. 

The window consists of two archivolts beater rods in between columns resting on crochet hooks provided, similar to the inertia and Rebolledo Matalbaniega. 

The triumphal arch is supported by paired columns topped by capitals sides doubles. On the left is decorated with crochets and human heads, while the right one does it with another head between motifs. 

As for the corbels, the majority are nacelle, however, find any rolls, staggered rectangles and bow of boat.