Luzaga No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02627LUZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, W end, N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Address: C. Resbaladeros, 9, 19261 Luzaga, Guadalajara, Spain -- Tel.: +34 949 30 00 38
Site Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-2, 87 km from Guadalajara capital
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Ruiz Montejo (1992): chalice-shaped font with a squat base; the upper part of the basin is cylindrical and has a large pattée cross inside a circle, itself resting on a small promontory; a rope motif separates the sides of the basin from the underbowl which is shaped like a truncated and inverted cone; it is ornamented with a blind arcade (Mozarabic-looking arches); another rope motif separates it from the short base, rounded at the top, where it meets the underbowl, and square at the bottom. Listed in Garma Ramírez (2000) as a good baptismal font [="una buena pila bautismal"] of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated also in Nieto Taberné (2000), who also notes another Romanesque font in the Ermita de San Bartolomé nearby, half way between Villaverde and Luzaga [cf. Index entry for Luzaga No. 2]. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a Romanesque baptismal font made of limestone, probably of the 13th century, consisting of a cylindrical basin decorated with a Latin cross fleurdelisée on a pedestal, the cross itself, but not the pedestal, inscribed in a circle, all in very shallow carving; a rope moulding at the lower end of the side; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with a shallow arcade of 23 horseshoe arches on columns; raised on a fluted circular pedestal base, and a lower base with with spurs at 90-degree angles.

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 40.9737, -2.4457
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 40° 58′ 25.32″ N, 2° 26′ 44.52″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 118 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009)]

REFERENCES

  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009, vol. 2: 521
  • Garma Ramírez, David de la, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Guadalajara, Valladolid: Castilla Ediciones, 2000, p. 31, 83
  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Guadalajara, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2000, p. 34
  • Ruiz Montejo, Inés, Herencia del románico en Guadalajara, Ciudad Real: Servicio de Publicaciones, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 1992, p. 277 and ill on p. 401