Villaverde del Ducado, No. 2

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06446VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de San Bartolomé [form. iglesia Parroquial de Portilla / Campiello]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Address: 19261 Viilaverde del Ducado, Guadalajara, Spain
Site Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off GU-935, S of the A-2, 3 km SW of Alcolea del Pinar, 82 km NE of Guadalajara capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Sigüenza-Guadalajara
Historical Region: formerly Portilla?
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 serpiente"]. Cf. Index entry for Villaverde del Ducado No. 1 for the font at the parish church of this locality]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 542867 4539126
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.0022, -2.49028
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 0′ 7.92″ N, 2° 29′ 25.01″ W

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, vol. 2: 916
  • Layna Serrano, Francisco, La Arquitectura románica en la provincia de Guadalajara, 3a ed., Guadalajara: AACHE ediciones, 2001, p. 199