Loranca de Tajuna / Loranca de Tajuña
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: photograph by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: photograph by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27/1/2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02636LOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: C. Mayor, 19141 Loranca de Tajuña, Guadalajara, Spain -- Tel.: +34 949 29 45 35
Site Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located othe CM-2028, 35 km SE of Guadalajara capital, E of Madrid
Font Notes:
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Described in Ruiz Montejo (1992): a baptismal font of very crude execution has raised the question of whether this is a true Romanesque font or one done by a local stone-mason following the style of other such fonts. The basin has a crude blind arcade of Mozarabic arches; round upper rim; the short pedestal base is octagonal with alternating concave and convex motifs. The upper rim of the rim has been broken [probably by the removal of old cover ironware], and repaired. A flat plain wooden lid appears modern. In Garma Ramírez (2000). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a Romanesque baptismal font of a type common in this region, with other examples at nearby Henche and Las Inviernas, and other regional specimens at Anguita and Villaseca de Henares. The decoration on the basin consists of a moulding at the upper rim, with round –almost horseshoe-shaped- arch-heads below framing the tops of broad ribs all around; there is damage to the upper rim, and two metal staples from the old cover are still in their position there; the squat round-to-square base is of much later date, probably the 16th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 490126 4477438
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 40.447539, -3.116436
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 40° 26′ 51.14″ N, 3° 6′ 59.17″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 129 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 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: Cuenca, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009, p. 162
- 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: 515
- Garma Ramírez, David de la, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Guadalajara, Valladolid: Castilla Ediciones, 2000, p. 31
- Ruiz Montejo, Inés, Herencia del románico en Guadalajara, Ciudad Real: Servicio de Publicaciones, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 1992, p. 401