Mohorte

Results: 3 records

BBU01: design element - patterns - zigzag

BU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 02418MOH
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Natividad
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Location: C. la Iglesia, 1, 16193 Mohorte, Cuenca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located a few kms ESE of Cuenca down the N-420, now part of its suburbs
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Described and illustrated in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009), which gives the font at nearby Las Zomas as sharing the general shape and the rope moulding at the lower level of underbowl. The basin is almost hemispheric in shape, mounted on s short square base; the basin has a band of zig-zag at the upper register of the side and a thick protruding rope motif on the lower underbowl.; the base, which may or not be the original, appears to have some sort of round motif under a moulding but it is now very worn. The upper rim retains one (?) of the metal staples of the old cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.007994, -2.0619527
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 0′ 29″ N, 2° 3′ 43″ W
UTM: 30T 580138 4429219

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 93 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm [Enciclopedia has 120 cm]
Basin Depth: 48 cm
Basin Total Height: 65 cm
Height of Base: 25 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 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
Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, Cuenca: Estudio Museo, 1994
Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2001