Almiruete

Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009), as a font of the late Romanesque consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, followed down by a row of scallops and a ribbed pattern below; raised on a short circular stem and a lower base of like shape; on a three-step plinth. The basin retains one (?) metal staple from the old cover locking system. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) remarks on the similarity of the fonts at Almiruete, Bustares, Olmeda de Cobeta, Ujedos, and the later font at Miedes de Atienza: "A los pies de esta nave norte y sobre un pequeño altillo, se alza la pila bautismal románica situada sobre tres escalones circulares. La copa se decora con sucesión de gallones verticales y cenefa de semibozantes en la parte superior. La embocadura exterior se decora con sencillo bocel."