Abia de la Obispalia / Abia de la Obispalía / Abia Sarzola

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04988ABI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: 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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the former Ermita de Santa Catalina, at the W end, S side, beneath the gallery
Church Address: C. Fuente del Saz, 18, 16195 Abia de la Obispalía, Cuenca, Spain
Site Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CU-704, in the centre of a region known as the Obispalía, just S of the A40 / N400, 30 km ESE of Cuenca capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Cuenca
Additional Comments: disused font
Font Notes:
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.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 551204 4429779
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 40.016667, -2.4
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 40° 1′ 0″ N, 2° 24′ 0″ W

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, p. 94
  • Nieto Taberné, Tomás, El Románico en Cuenca, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2001, p. 36