Cozuelos de Fuentiduena / Cozuelos de Fuentidueña

Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
Results: 5 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - floral - in a circle
BBU02: design element - motifs - nail-head
view of base - detail
view of font and cover
view of object
Scene Description: This is most likely the carrier base for a large sculpture that is taken out in procession on special occasions; it just happens to be kept on top of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07811COZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Segovia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located near Sacramenia and Fuentidueña, in the N of the province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Eugenio Chicharro, of Sebulcor, Segovia, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Romanesque period consisting of a large and crudely rendered roughly hemispheric basin raised on a squate round base and a wide plinth; the upper nbasin side has a band of encircled floral motis below which runs a row of nail-head motif; it appears otherwise plain but the are two protrusion on the lower base that may be badly damaged heads [NB: whether they were originally part of the base or not...] The wooden cover is flat, plain and round; modern [NB: an object located on the cover of the font is probably not part of it, but the processional carrying platform for one of the village religious statues]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]