Frontera No. 1 / La Frontera

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - double arches

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B02: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: each rib inscribed in an arch of the arcade

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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

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LB01: design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: detail of section with broken moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02415FRO

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located in El Campichuelo, in the north area of the province

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Angels Majó Rais and to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the images of and information on this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001) as a Romanesque baptismal font ornamented with a band of foliage and a blind arcade of double arches. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) The large hemispherical basin has a moulding around the upper rim; below it, a band of acanthus (?) foliage; the lower side and underbowl bears an arcade or double arches, the space within the arches shaped like the broad ribs that are common in baptismal fonts of the period in central Spain; the spandrels of the arcade are decorated with striations resembling vegetal motifs; the base is a truncated cone somewhat splayed at the lower end and decorated with a wide band of diagonal fluting around its middle. The font is in a fair state of conservation, although there is damage to the upper rim moulding. In August 2003 the font is covered with a modern plain flat wooden lid. [cf. Index entry for La Frontera No. 2 for a matching (?) holy-water stoup in the same church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 16 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 83 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm

Basin Depth: 41 cm

Basin Total Height: 59 cm

Height of Base: 30 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm

Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberné (1994: 450)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain and flat

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

Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, Cuenca: Estudio Museo, 1994

Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2001