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B01: design element - motifs - piping
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Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © marcp_dmoz, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2009 by marcp_dmoz [http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcp_dmoz/3776826689/sizes/o/] [accessed 26 January 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15895ALM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Cecilia
Church Patron Saints: St. Cecilia [aka Caecelia, Cecelia]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located on the CM-219, in the Alcarria Baja, 60 km from Guadalajara capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a baptismal font in the Romanesque style probably of the 13th century, either from the original Romanesque church that was replaced by the present 16th-century building, or brought over from one of the rural chapels or churches of the neighbourhood. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with eight protruding vertical piping spaced around the outside of the basin and linked around the bottom by a roll moulding; it is raised on truncated cone shaped squat base. It is a crude piece of local craftsmanship. This source points out similar fonts in the area at Sotoca del Tajo and Valderrebollo.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 128 cm*
Basin Total Height: 67 cm [calculated]
Height of Base: 33 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009)]
REFERENCES
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