Cifuentes

Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the 13th century. The round basin is decorated with the ribbed pattern topped with round arch-heads that is characteristic of this area; raised on a squat narrow base. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) suggests the fonts at Ablanque, Cifuentes, Henche, Hontanares, Las Inviernas, Millana, Olmeda de Cobeta, El Picazo [now in Guadalajara capital] and Salmerón, as being stylistically related. The font consists of a large hemispherical basin decorated with rib pattern all around, and raised on a tiny squat round-to-square base; traces of repair on the upper rim side, probably where the old cover staples were forcibly removed; the basin and base may have been originally one piece, but it appears to have been broken and repaired with cement.