El Tejo

Title

El Tejo

Also Known As

Texo

Dates

Founded late 12th c.; dissolved early 16th c.

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Villamediananilla

Medieval Diocese

Burgos

Circary

Spain

History

Santa María del Tejo was founded in the 12th century, and received properties and rights in the area from Alfonso VIII. It may briefly have been an abbey, but if so by the early 13th century it had already been reduced to the status of priory.

From 1515, the property was leased out to laypeople. The surviving church preserves some of its original Romanesque fabric.

Heads of Community

Priors

Fernando Ruiz, ?-1515
Diego Treceño, 1515-?

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional

Clero-Secular e Regular, Car. 1950, 17 (1179)

Bibliography

Cidad Muñoz, Santos. “Abadias Premonstratenses en la Diocesis de Burgos. (Capítulo VII) El Tejo y Villamediana B.M.V.” Diario de Burgos, June 13, 1982. https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=10342940.

García Guinea, Miguel Ángel. “El Tejo y la Iglesia de Santa María.” In Enciclopedia del Románico. Cantabria I: La Costa, 485–88. Palencia: Fundación Santa María la Real Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2007.

Pedraja y Gonzalez del Tanago, J. M. de la. “Santa María del Tejo. Una fundación premostratense en las Asturias de Santillana.” Altamira 38 (1974): 5–10.

Image Credit

Exterior of the church's bell tower, ca. 1930s. PAS.

Files

Collection

Spain

Citation

“El Tejo,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/684.

Geolocation