Pajares nr. Cuenca
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - columns with capitals
B02: design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled
Scene Description: the trefoiled arch-heads inside the pointed arches
BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - intersecting - 4-strand
BBU02: design element - motifs - rope moulding
BS01: design element - motifs - foliage
INFORMATION
FontID: 02416PAJ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santo Domingo de Silos
Church Patron Saints: St. Dominic of Silos
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the CM-210, N of Cuenca capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Nieto Taberné (1994); NT gives the font as Fuentes as cognate. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) with date in the 14th century. The baptismal font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a band of 4-strand round intersecting arch-heads all around; a rope moulding separates this from the arcade of pinted arches with trefoiled arch-head inserts, resting on columns with capitals; the spandrels of the arcade are decorated with foliage; squate circular base with a lower moulding.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no li
Rim Thickness: 16 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 68 cm [Enciclopedia has 67 cm]
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberne (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
Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, Cuenca: Estudio Museo, 1994