Recopolis / Reccopolis / Recópolis / Cerro de la Oliva / Zorita de los Canes / Recapel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Iñigo De la Guardia Rey
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borjaanimal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Borjaanimal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recopolis_-_Basilica_(Portada).jpg] [accessed 12 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: The Visigothic church is known to have served later as a mosque, and later still, in the late 11th century, as a Christian church, but we have no information of any font of that period in it. The baptistery is believed to have been located attached to the northwest end of the original basilica.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iñigo De la Guardia Rey, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Iñigo De la Guardia Rey
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iñigo De la Guardia Rey, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Iñigo De la Guardia Rey
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view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Reconstrucción de un cancel hecho a partir de una docena de fragmentos originales. Proceden de una basílica en Recópolis, ciudad fundada por Leovigildo en la actual Zorita de los Canes, Guadalajara." -- although the source does not specify the location where these pieces are now held it is presumed to be the MAN (Museo Arqueológico Nacional), Madrid, Spain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angel M. Felicísimo, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Angel M. Felicísimo [www.flickr.com/photos/8146925@N08/25876721087] [accessed 12 April 2019]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: it appears to belong in te area of the chancel of the medieval church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Borjaanimal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recopolis_-_Basilica_(Interior).jpg] [accessed 12 April 2019]
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view of context
Scene Description: the area around the archaeological site
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iñigo De la Guardia Rey, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Iñigo De la Guardia Rey
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view of context
Scene Description: view from the Reccopolis site
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iñigo De la Guardia Rey, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Iñigo De la Guardia Rey
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 April 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08456REC
Object Type: Baptismal Font?
Church/Chapel: Nuestra Señora de Recapel / Ermita de la Virgen de la Oliva
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Carretera de Almoguera, s/n, 19119 Zorita de los Canes, Guadalajara, Spain -- Tel.: +34 949 37 68 98
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located in the Cerro de la Oliva, SE of Zorita de los Canes, S of Pastrana, 60 km from Guadalajara capital, about 70 km E of Madrid capital
Ecclesiastic Region: [Dióocesis de Toledo?]
Historical Region: formerly Cuenca?
Font Location in Church: [believed to have been located in the NE side of the narthex]
Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Visigothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Iñigo De la Guardia Rey for his photographs of the archaeological site
Font Notes:
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Described in Fontain (1973-1977) as a baptistery of the Visigothic period probably located in the north-east corner of the narthex, in the church of Nuestra Señora de Recapel. [NB: Fontain (ibid.) places Zorita de los Canes in Cuenca province; it now belongs in the neighbouring province of Guadalajara]. The Visigothic church is known to have served later as a mosque, and later still, in the late 11th century, as a Christian church, but we have no information of any font of that period in this church. [NB: Zorita de los Canes has also a Romanesque church inside the ruins of the medieval castle; this church is dated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) to the late-12th or early-13th century, but there is no trace of a font left there]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.320556, -2.893611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 19′ 14.16″ N, 2° 53′ 36.96″ W
UTM: 30T 509039 4463342
REFERENCES
Fontaine, Jacques, Art pré-roman hispanique, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1973-1977
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