Castellar de la Muela No. 1 / La Carrasca

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02644CAS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial
Church Location: 19328 Castellar de la Muela, Guadalajara, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Castellar de la Muela is on the N-211, 5-7 km E of Molina de Aragon, Guadalajara province (dir. Teruel).
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Our only source is a blurry illustration available of this strange-looking object: it was obviously not a font originally, although it does now have a well and may have been used for baptisms; it is an oddly-shaped stone with a broad lower part on which there is an inscription [illegible in this source]; the upper part is quasi-cylindrical, though very irregular, and has a face carved on its side above the inscription (a/p photograph on p. 402, Ruiz Montejo, 1992). +++THIS PROBABLY is THE SAME OBJECT AS THE ONE LISTED IN BSI AS "Carrasca (Guadalajara"***

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.818889, -1.759444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 49′ 8″ N, 1° 45′ 34″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: other
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: Lower part
Inscription Text: [transcription not available]
Inscription Source: Ruiz Montejo (1992: photograph on p. 402)

REFERENCES

Ruiz Montejo, Inés, Herencia del románico en Guadalajara, Ciudad Real: Servicio de Publicaciones, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 1992