Hontanares

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: framing the top of the ribs

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 16131HON
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora del Popolo
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Plaza de la Iglesia, 19413 Hontanares, Guadalajara, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located on the GU-931, 10 km from Brihuega, 55 km from Guadalajara capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the western gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [assumed -- given in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as: "“mide 90 cm de largo por 1 m de ancho”]

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