Toba / La Toba
INFORMATION
FontID: 16186TOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the CM-1000
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
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]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone