Abia de la Obispalia / Abia de la Obispalía / Abia Sarzola
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04988ABI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [formerly Ermita de Santa Catalina [originally from the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, now in ruins and serving as the municipal cemetery]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located in the centre of a region known as the Obispalía, just S of the A40 / N400, 30 km ESE of Cuenca capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the former Ermita de Santa Catalina, at the W end, S side, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Nieto Taberné (2001) as a Romanesque font ornamented with a band of incised circles which appear to be unfinished. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009). The font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim and a ribbed pattern all around the sides and underbowl; the Enciclopedia… (ibid.) mentions the unfinished band of circles noted in Nieto Taberné [cf. supra], and suggests similarities with the font at Villanueva de los Escuderos, also in Cuenca; plain and squat round-to-square base.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 18.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 79 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 116 cm*
Basin Depth: 38
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