Torrubia
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Scene Description: the Baroque font in the context of the nave
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2005 by nrikem, in Panoramio [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7916228] [accessed 18 March 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16187TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located off the GU-426, 7 km N of Molina de Aragón
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Font Notes:
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José Serrano Belinchón in his original article on this locality in November 1984 [reprinted in http://guplazamayor.blogspot.com/2009/11/torrubia.html [accessed 18 March 2010]] noted a black-marble baptismal font raised on a Solomonic shaft of the same stone [="pila bautismal de mármol negro, sostenida sobre columna salomónica de la misma piedra y forma de copa"] in this church. This baptismal font corresponds probably to the Baroque re-building of the 17th-18th century; it consists of a round shallow basin decorated with a stylised moulding on the upper rim and a ribbed pattern on the underbowl, raised on a slender torsade stem and a moulded round-to-square lower base. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Romanesque church of which the south portal remains]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (black and grey)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round