Salmeroncillo de Arriba / Salmeroncillos de Arriba

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02440SAL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Zarza [aka ...de las Zarzas] [formerly Iglesia de la Magdalena]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [earlier dedication of the original church was St. Mary Magdalene]
Church Location: Calle Iglesia, 10, 16813 Salmeroncillos de Arriba, Cuenca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the CM2015 (access from the N320 at Los Cabezuelos; then 10 km in a NE direction)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Described in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, decorated with ribbed pattern on the sides and a rope moulding at the upper rim; very crude workmanship; NT (ibid.) mentions cognates at Albendea, Bonilla and Hontecillas. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009), which notes some similarity with the fonts from Gascas [de Alarcon, now in Olmedilla de Alarcon], Albendea and Villagarcia del Llano. The Enciclopedia... (ibid.) dates the font to the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.5200638, -2.527652
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 31′ 12″ N, 2° 31′ 40″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 74 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 98 cm [Enciclopedia has 97 cm]
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Basin Total Height: 61 cm [[Enciclopedia has 84 cm]
Height of Base: 30 cm [Enciclopedia has 20 cm]
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberne (1994: 452)

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