Santa Cruz del Retamar

Noted in Frothingham (1977). Described and illustrated in Pedro Riaza [http://foro.toletho.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1168] [accessed 2 January 2012] with a text source from http://santacruzdelretamar.iespana.es [NB: this site appears to have been removed now]; baptismal font of glazed ceramic dating probably to between 1485 and 1490, the time of the resettlement of the village; the basin is octagonal at the top, turning cylindrical towards the bottom, with a plain rounded underbowl; the sides of the basin are decorated vith two alternating symbols: a trefoiled Greek cross and a pair of keys, repeated around the basin; the source points out that, although the pair of keys could be the emblem of St. Peter, the key symbol is ofetn used in Moorish iconography. The work appears cruder in execution than its cognate fonts of nearby Camarenilla and the one at the Hispanic Society in New York; the glaze is of a yellow-brown tint. [NB: at some point the font appears to have been moved to to the Palacio (?) Arzobispal of Toledo, but the entry in www.castillosdeltajo.es/web/santacruz.castillosdeltajo.es/historia/monumentos [accessed 2 January 2012] refers to it as being located inside the Iglesia Parroquial del Triunfo de la Santa Cruz, in the Capilla de San Antonio].