Santa Maria del Espino / Rata

INFORMATION

FontID: 16168SAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de El Salvador

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Country Name: Spain

Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located off the A-2, near Anguita, 95 km from Guadalajara capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the N side

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view

The font is referred to in José Serrano Belinchón's August 1987 article on this village [http://guplazamayor.blogspot.com/2009/10/santa-maria-del-espino.html] [accessed 17 March 2010] as a stone baptismal font with Gothic ornamentation [="la [pila] bautismal de piedra, vaciada con ornamentación gótica." Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) as a plain baptismal font in this church. [NB: are they referring to the same object?]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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