Luzaga No. 2

Results: 1 records

B01: symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04938LUZ
Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Bartolomé
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Luzaga is ocated off the A-2, 87 km from Guadalajara capital -- this chapel is located half way between Villaverde and Luzaga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Described in Nieto Taberné (2000) as an interesting [Romanesque] baptismal font ornamented with a pattée (?) cross inscribed in a circle. Herrera Casado (2002) [http://www.aache.com/na/na020215.htm] [accessed 11 March 2010] notes a good Romanesque font [= "una buena pila románica"] in this chapel. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) does not mention this chapel [NB: a similarly ornamented cross listed in this Index for Luzaga No. 1 in the Index is located in Luzaga itself, in the parish church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Guadalajara, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2000