Alarcon / Alarcón

The baptismal font is said to be from the workshop of Esteban Jamete [or Janete], of Orleans, who was responsible also for the retable and the sacristy [source: www.citelan.es] [cf. Jesús María Parrado del Olmo's 'Talleres escultóricos del siglo XVI en Castilla y León' (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2992): 91-96 for information on this master sculptor born in Orléans, France, who worked in Castille in the mid-16th century]. Noted and illustrated in http://www.descubrealarcon.es/santamaria.html [accessed 20 April 2010]. The font, located in the Iglesia de Santa María del Campo, consists of a shallow circular basin decorated with mouldings, garland, etc., raised on a circular fluted shaft of baluster shape decorated with mouldings, and a lower base with four animals (?) at 90-degree angles. Alarcon has four churches: Santo Domingo de Silos, San Juan Bautista, La Trinidad and Santa María del Campo, and a rural chapel, the Ermita de Santa María de la Orden. Of these five buildings, Sto. Domingo and the Ermita are Romanesque, but there is no font left in either of the two.