Valdecanas / Valdecañas
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B01:
design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1985 by Germán López Bravo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valdeca%C3%B1as-24.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: Released by the author into the public domain [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valdeca%C3%B1as-24.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
INFORMATION
FontID: 02445VAL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 16843 Valdecañas, Cuenca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N-320, on the CU-V-2124, just E of La Ventosa and Culebra, 30 km from Cuenca capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Romanesque
Described in Nieto Taberne (1994): cauldron-shaped basin has large ribs framed in round arches; lacks a base and rests directly on the ground. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009), which indicates the basin was not intended to go on a base [NB: given that the basin is only 62 cm tall, it would have needed to be raised on something to be functional as a font]. A photograph of this font ca. 1985 [cf. ImageArea] shows the basin raised on a squat base. The font has a wooden cover, round and flat, of modern appearance.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 15 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 79 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm* [Enciclopedia has 107 cm]
Basin Depth: 38 cm*
Basin Total Height: 63 cm* [Enciclopedia has 62]
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
