Castejon de Cuenca / Castejón de Cuenca

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BBU01: design element - motifs - flat moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02425CAS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [formerly Nuestra Señora del Socorro]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: C. Castillo, 2, 16856 Castejón, Cuenca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located on the CM-310, in the Alcarria, 60 km from Cuenca capital
Historical Region: La Alcarria Conquense
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Almodóvar del Pinar, Culebras and Casas de Santa Cruz [cf. FontNotes]
Described and illustrated in Nieto Taberné (1994) as a Romanesque baptismal font with border and ribs which resemble arches, otherwise plain. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) reports and illustrates a Romanesque baptismal font in this 16th-17th century church; it consists of a round tapering basin decorated with a flat moulding at the rim, and a ribbed pattern all around; raised on plain cylindrical pedestal base. Noted in the Enciclopedia… (ibid.) as one in a group of somewhat similar fonts at Castejón de Cuenca, Almodóvar del Pinar, Culebras and Casas de Santa Cruz. [NB: the baptismal register of this church is said to be one of the first in Spain, started ca. 1488]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm
Basin Depth: 38 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: 40 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm [Enciclopedia... has 96 cm]
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberné (1994)

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