Luzaga No. 2

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04938LUZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de San Bartolomé
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: 19261 Luzaga, Guadalajara, Spain
Site Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Luzaga is located off the A-2, 87 km from Guadalajara capital -- this chapel is located half way between Villaverde and Luzaga
Font Notes:
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 546636 4535985

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Guadalajara, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2000, p. 34