Villaverde del Ducado, No. 2

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B01: design element - motifs - wave

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 06446VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Bartolomé [form. iglesia Parroquial de Portilla]
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the A-2, 3 km from Alcolea del Pinar, 82 km from Guadalajara capital
Historical Region: formerly Portilla?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described in Layna Serrano (2001 c1969) as a large Romanesque font. Described by Antonio Herrera Casado as a fine Romanesque font ["una buena pila románica"] [source: Semanario Nueva Alcarria, sección Artes y Letras, 15 Febrero 2002 -- www.aache.com/na]. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a hemispherical basin without a base, and decorated with a single wavy line symbolsing a snake {="que simboliza la forma de una serpeinte"]. Cf. Index entry for Villaverde del Ducado No. 1 for the font at the parish church of this locality]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Basin Total Height: 66 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009)]

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
Layna Serrano, Francisco, La Arquitectura románica en la provincia de Guadalajara, 3a ed., Guadalajara: AACHE ediciones, 2001