Riba de Santiuste

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: very worn now [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Marcos Nieto Jiménez [www.histgueb.net/lariba/iglesia.htm] [accessed 17 March 2010]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph by Marcos Nieto Jiménez [www.histgueb.net/lariba/iglesia.htm] [accessed 17 March 2010]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Scene Description: the baptismal font is visible to the right of the altar, on the south side of the presbitery

Image Source: digital photograph by Marcos Nieto Jiménez [www.histgueb.net/lariba/iglesia.htm] [accessed 17 March 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (BSI gmail of 17 March 2010)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Marcos Nieto Jiménez [www.histgueb.net/lariba/iglesia.htm] [accessed 17 March 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (BSI gmail of 17 March 2010)

INFORMATION

FontID: 16151RIB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de la Virgen

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located off the GU-170, 90 km from Guadalajara capital, near the border with Soria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, in the presbitery, S side

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Marcos Nieto Jiménez, of www.histgueb.net/lariba/iglesia.htm, for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a 13th-century Romanesque baptismal font that was retained from the earlier building; it is small in size and made of reddish sandstone; the roughly hemispherical basin is decorated with robbed pattern, but the font is extremely eroded and the ribs are barely visible now, an indication the font was exposed to the elements for a long time; the base is a squat square pyramid of similar stone. The Enciclopedia… (ibid) suggests some similarities with the font at Villaescusa de Palositos [cf. Index entry]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round