Villanueva de los Escuderos

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

BBU02: symbol - cross - pattée

several
Scene Description: several

BBU03: design element - motifs - spiral

BBU04: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

INFORMATION

FontID: 02427VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the N-400, 15 km SW of Cuenca capital (on a local road that starts SW off the N400 just W of Albaladejito)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower, in a chapel that serves as baptistery
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is decorated with large arch-like ribs on the sides and with band of varied motifs (leaf, pattée cross, spiral, diamond) above. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) notes the presence of the floral and cross motifs on the fonts at Alconchel de la Estrella, Arandilla del Arroyo, Arcas and Villanueva de los Escuderos.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 559547 4432835

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 17 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 77 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 111 cm
Basin Depth: 35 cm
Basin Total Height: 65 cm
Height of Base: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberne (1994: 451)

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