Luzaga No. 1

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.