Tendilla No. 1

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: very thick ribs, all around

Image Source: José Luis García de Paz [www.uam.es/depaz/mendoza/tend_igl.htm] [altered mode]

Copyright Instructions: Permission to reproduce with alterations received (email of 9 November 2004)

BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the upper rim side

Image Source: José Luis García de Paz [www.uam.es/depaz/mendoza/tend_igl.htm] [altered mode]

Copyright Instructions: Permission to reproduce with alterations received (email of 9 November 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07141TEN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Virgen de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located in La Alcarria, 20-30 km from Guadalajara capital

Font Location in Church: In an alcove to the left of the altar

Century and Period: 16th century,

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in García de Paz' web site {URL below] as a baptismal font of the 16th century; it has a hemispherical basin ornamented with a thin roll moulding at the upper rim, and large ribbed pattern ["gallones"] all around the lower sides and underbowl. The base is a short quadrangular pedestal. [NB: this same source informs that José María Azcárate de Ristori, in the 1983 Inventario Artístico de Guadalajara, dated the font and the stoup to the 16th century] -- [cf. Index entry for Tendilla No. 2 for a heraldic holy-water stoup] [We are grateful to José Luis García de Paz for the permission to use his source photographs]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round