Toba / La Toba
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16186TOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista, La Toba
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Plaza la Concordia, 10, 19243 La Toba, Guadalajara, Spain -- Tel.: +34 949 89 13 24
Site Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CM-1053, 12-13 km NNW of Jadraque, about 50 km NNE of Guadalajara capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Sigüenza-Guadalajara
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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The web site of the Ayuntamiento de La Toba [http://www.latoba-guadalajara.es/latoba_iglesia.htm] [accessed 18 March 2010] notes the presence of a limestone pedestal font dated probably to the re-building of this Romanesque church in the 16th century. The same source notes and illustrates a holy-water basin of hemospherical shape, decorated with deeply-carved ribbed pattern on a square base; it is now wall-mounted, but may have been intended as a standing stoup, since it has a partial stem; it could de also late-medieval. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 13th-century church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 501518 4539220
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.004167, -2.981944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 0′ 15″ N, 2° 58′ 55″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone