Esplegares

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animal - bird - crane, heron or stork?

Scene Description: the tip of the stork's (?) beak is inside the mouth of the top reptile [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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animal - bird - dove?

Scene Description: at the plant or tree

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - horse?

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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animal - reptile - snake? - colied tail - 2

Scene Description: the tip of the stork's (?) beak is inside the mouth of the top reptile

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 4

Scene Description: two of them have more elaborate circles, one of which is patterned

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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design element - patterns - ribbed - incised

Scene Description: could be read as arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: damage to the rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: the space to the right of the horse (?) is blank until the first of the inscribed floral motifs -- notice also the drilled holes in the damaged rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: the last of the floral motifs at the left; two birds and plant or tree; two reptiles; to the right of the reptiles is the quadruped [not visible in this photograph]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the 6-petalled flowers

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the patterned circle inscribing a 6-petalled flower

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: EXT S OLD B&W photograph in Rufo Ramírez Medina' Geografía e historia del pueblo de Esplegares' (1933) [www.esplegares.com/gifs/iglesia_2.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2014]

Image Source: B&W photograph in Rufo Ramírez Medina' Geografía e historia del pueblo de Esplegares' (1933) [www.esplegares.com/gifs/iglesia_2.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16126ESP

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: 19445, Esplegares, Guadalajara, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located on the CM-2113, off the A2

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Sigüenza-Guadalajara

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, opposite the entranceway

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) and in Herrera Casado (2014) and [www.herreracasado.com/2014/05/02/esplegares-pila-bautismal/] [accessed 11 July 2014], as one of the best specimens of Romanesque fonts in Guadalajara. It is made of limestone and consists of a round basin with slightly tapering sides and a round underbowl, raised on a squat base made of a flat quadrangular platform supported on a central shaft and four angle colonnettes, all very short but the central one thicker, and another flat quadrangular platform below. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) notes the two registers of decoration on the basin; on the upper half is a band containing animal and geometric motifs; a pair of back-to-back birds, the one on the left a dove; the one on the right has a long beak (perhaps a stork?) which it ends inside the mouth of one of two reptiles with coiled tail; the combination of storks and snakes, suggests the Enciclopedia… (ibid.), symbolise the fight between Good and Evil; at the other side of the pair of birds is a plant-like motif, which this source suggests may represent the Tree of Life; to the left of this are four six-petal floral motifs inscribed in circles, one of the circles patterned; on the back side is a quadruped, possibly a horse; there is a large uncarved gap on this upper side, indicating perhaps that the font was left unfinished; a pattern of incised ribs decorates the lower end of the basin and the underbowl. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) remarks on the rarity of such a complex iconographic programme on fonts of this region. The quality of the work is not exceptionally good, the carver -or carvers- more at ease with geometrical than animal subjects. The basin has suffered significant damage, especially on the upper rim, one of the missing chunks obviously where the cover staple or lock was.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 553168 4523192

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) ]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Herrera Casado, Antonio, Iconografía románica en Guadalajara, Guadalajara: Aache, 2014