Villarejo de Medina

Results: 4 records

B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: fitted atop of the ribs

B02: design element - patterns - ribbed

BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - intersecting - 3-strand

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02642VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: C. Travesaña, 1D, 19445 Villarejo de Medina, Guadalajara, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: About 10 kms E of Luzaga, to the SE of Sigüenza, 100 km from Guadalajara capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in Ruiz Montejo (1992) as a medieval baptismal font of dubious Romanesque pedigree; the basin is ornamented with a moulding at the upper rim, a band of intersecting three-strand arch-heads, and a row of round arch-heads fitted atop the ribbed pattern that continues down the underbowl; stands directly on the ground without a base. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as baptismal font of the 13th century. The Enciclopedia… (ibid) notes the similarity of the decoration with the font at Peñalver, although the latter has beaded-tape motif on the arch-heads, whereas Villarejo's has three-strand arch-heads.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.9522, -2.33694
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 57′ 7.92″ N, 2° 20′ 12.98″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Basin Total Height: 60 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
Ruiz Montejo, Inés, Herencia del románico en Guadalajara, Ciudad Real: Servicio de Publicaciones, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 1992