Church of San Esteban Protomártir (Bañuelos del Rudrón)

The church of San Esteban Protomártir, in Bañuelos del Rudrón, municipality of Tubilla del Agua (Province of Burgos, Spain) is a Romanesque temple of the eleventh century, with a single nave and semicircular apse, preceded by a straight section.

The apse and the nave, covered with quarter-vault and half-barrel vault respectively, are separated by a pointed triumphal arch, which rests on historical capitals, supported by columns. Its interior, which preserves remains of mural paintings, houses a magnificent baptismal font, at the base of which the serpent -Demonium-, devoured by a canine animal - Lion of Judah - and a pile of holy water of doubtful dating , but possibly prior to the construction of the church.

On the outside are the beautiful Romanesque canecillos and the apse window.

Adjacent to the north wall is the sacristy, and in the same position a fourth storeroom, which hides a Romanesque door with Gothic influences, now annulled.

It follows a small portico, from 1739, and the square-shaped prismatic tower, built in 1801, with ashlar masonry, as well as all the Romanesque construction, the rest of the temple being sillarejo and masonry. >

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