Culebras
INFORMATION
FontID: 02429CUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Santísima Trinidad
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: 16843 Culebras, Cuenca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located on the S banks of the Guadamajud river, 39 kms WNW of the city of Cuenca; it is accessible both from the N-320, left turn at Villar de Domingo Garcia, or, via the local road through Navalon, before Bolliga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Castejón de Cuenca, Almodóvar del Pinar and Casas de Santa Cruz, also in Cuenca province [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Nieto Taberné (1994). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) as a Romanesque baptimal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a wide flat moulding at the upper rim, and a pronounced roll moulding below; on the sides and underbowl is a pattern of broad ribs framed inside round arches; on a plain cylindrical 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
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 97 cm [Enciclopedia has 100]
Basin Depth: 32 cm
Basin Total Height: 54 cm
Height of Base: 44 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm [Encilopedia has 99 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