Hontanares

Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) with suggested date in the late-12th or early-13th century, and similarities with the font at the Iglesia del Salvador, in nearby Cifuentes, although this font has only fifteen ribs and the one at Cifuentes has twenty-five of them; the font is chalice-shaped, with a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding at the upper ring, and the ribbed pattern topped with round arches that is characteristic of many Guadalajara fonts; it is raised on a squat base formed of a very short round stem, a short square lower base, and an even shorter quadrangular plinth. There is some damage to the sides, especially around the upper rim.