Melgosa / La Melgosa

Results: 4 records

BBU01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - crossing arches

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Nieto Taberné (2001: 22)

BBU02: design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Nieto Taberné (2001: 22)

BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Nieto Taberné (2001: 22)

LB01: design element - motifs - loop

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Nieto Taberné (2001: 22)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04983MEL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assuption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located near the Rio Moscas, 8 km from Cuenca capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Nieto Taberné (2001). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) as a Romanesque font probably from the earlier church in this village. Baptismal font with a deep basin whose upper rim is ornamented with a rope motif; under it, a band of intersecting arch-heads and, below it, a pattern of broad ribs reaching all the way down; the base itself appears to consist of two short pieces: the top is a ring with a looping motif all around; the lower one had a pattern which is now totally eroded. The Enciclopedia... (ibid.) notes the similarity of the intersecting arch-heads of this font with those on the font at Mariana, also in Cuenca.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 106 cm
Basin Total Height: 82 cm
Notes on Measurements: Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (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
Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2001