Brihuega No. 2

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaf-like motifs alternating around the large basin and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken in January 2005 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 January, 2005)

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken in January 2005 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 January, 2005)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in January 2005 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 January, 2005)

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Image Source: B&W photograph showing the interior of the church and the font during/after the Spanish Civil War; captioned: "Brihuega (Guadalajara), el pueblo conquistado por los republicanos: destrozos en pared y pila bautismal del interior de una iglesia." [http://guerracivil.forumup.es/post-14769-guerracivil.html] [accessed 26 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10510BRI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Virgen de la Peña

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located on the CM2011, about 35 km NE of Guadalajara capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for the photographs of the font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Large baptismal font probably of the 14th or 15th century, in the Gothic style; it consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with a combination of very large raised pointed leaf-shaped motifs alternating with smaller ones that are carved into the surface, not a commonly found pattern; the pedestal base has a roll moulding at each end, and is modern. A modern metal cover-top is on the font now. [NB: the font, as the church itself, was damaged during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); the base is a modern replacement; the original appears to have had the same shape, as can ne seen in an old photograph in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]