Cozuelos de Fuentiduena / Cozuelos de Fuentidueña

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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

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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)

BBU02: design element - motifs - nail-head

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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)

view of base - detail

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)

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:
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]