Yunta / La Yunta

Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower?
B02: design element - motifs - piping
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
BU01: design element - motifs - ball - patterned
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 16216YUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Guadalajara capital, towards the provincial border with Aragón
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for the information on, and his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a raund shallow basin decorated with a row of square (?) flowers and piping between two horizontal mouldings; below the lower moulding, a spaced row of decorated ball motif; raised on a plain octagonal (?) pedestal base. The basin is much damaged at the rim. [NB: dated to the 17th century in the Inventario Artístico de la Provincia de Guadalajara [full ref. not yet available]].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: metal lining