Guadalajara No. 1

Results: 8 records

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

BBU01: design element - motifs - concentric circles

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

LB01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the very bottom of the stem of the base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/9/2003)

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 19, 2005

INFORMATION

FontID: 05573GUA

Church/Chapel: Concatedral de Santa María la Mayor / Santa María de la Fuente [originally from the parish church of Retuerta]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located in downtown Guadalajara capital [NB: the Despoblado de la Retuerta is located about 2 km from Balconete, itself 3 km from Tomellosa]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com] for his notes on, and the added photograph of this font, and to the priest at the Concatedral who informed us of the origin of this font and provided access to the font despite the untimely hour of our visit

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the Romanesque period originally form the parish church at La Retuerta [abandoned village near Balconete]. The basin is hemispherical and decorated with a band of concentric circle motifs at the upper side; the sides are ornamented with a ribbed pattern; the narrow and short pedestal base is round and decorated with vertical ribs, a continuation of the basin pattern, the bottom end with a roll moulding and resting directly on the ground without lower base or plinth. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) notes and illustrates the ruins of the former Romanesque church of Santo Domingo, La Retuerta, of the late-12th or early-13th century, but does not mention this font in either of its entries for Balconete/Retuerta or Guadalajara capital.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009