Castejon de Cuenca / Castejón de Cuenca

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02425CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Almodóvar del Pinar, Culebras and Casas de Santa Cruz [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [formerly Nuestra Señora del Socorro]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Address: C. Castillo, 2, 16856 Castejón, Cuenca, Spain
Site Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the CM-310, in the Alcarria, 60 km from Cuenca capital
Historical Region: La Alcarria Conquense
Font Notes:
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, p. 171, 198
  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, Cuenca: Estudio Museo, 1994, p. 451