Mariana

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02409MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Pedro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 13thC(?) church
Church Address: Calle Iglesia, 4, 16143 Mariana, Cuenca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 969 23 09 05
Site Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CUV-9116, on the west banks of the Rio Mariana, 13 km N of Cuenca capital
Font Notes:
Described in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) with date in the 13th century. Romanesque baptismal font with an uncommon decorative pattern for the area: two bands of intersecting round arch-heads below the roll moulding at the upper rim; arcade of blind round arches on double coumns on sides and underbowl, clover-leaf motif in the spandrels of the arches; squat lower base decorated with three-leave foliage. The Enciclopedia... (ibid.) notes the similarity of the intersecting arch-heads of this font with those on the font at La Melgosa.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 510188 4432621

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 20 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 80 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm [Enciclopedia has 121 cm]
Basin Depth: 37 cm
Basin Total Height: 67 cm
Height of Base: 17 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberné (1994: 450)

REFERENCES

  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009, p. 239
  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, Cuenca: Estudio Museo, 1994, p. 450
  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2001, p. 31