Albendea No. 2

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: slightly slanted

R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02441ALB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 16812 Albendea, Cuenca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 969 31 60 30
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the N-320, 70 km from Cuenca capital [in El Infantado, in the N of the province, just E of the Rio San Juan, near the border with Guadalajara province]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Romanesque
Noted in Nieto Taberné (1994) and (2001) as a Romanesque font. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) as a baptismal font in the Romanesque tradition, but probably of later execution. The font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and a slightly slanted ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl; raised on a plain circular pedestal base

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.487411, -2.4184166
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 29′ 15″ N, 2° 25′ 6″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 100 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 122 cm
Basin Depth: 41 cm
Basin Total Height: 61 cm
Height of Base: 32 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm
Notes on Measurements: Nieto Taberné (1994: p. 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