Cobos de Fuentiduena / Cobos de Fuentidueña
Image copyright © Fernando Sebastián Alvaro, 2010
Permission received from the author
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view of font and cover
symbol - fish
symbol - cross - fleuronnée
symbol - unidentified
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rastrojo, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2016 by Rastrojo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Cobos_de_Fuentidueña.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16543COB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Julián Mártir, Cobos de Fuentidueña
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Julian
Church Address: 40332 Cobos de Fuentidueña, Segovia, Spain
Site Location: Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located between Tejares (N) and Navalilla (S), 69 km from Segovia capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Segovia
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with large symbols: a foliated (?) cross with a lower base resembling the water representations in Christ's baptism. a large fish (?) and and eel (?), etc., all of them under a double moulding at the upper rim; raised on a low circular base with mouldings. The wooden cover is flat and round; crude and modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Fernando Sebastián Alvaro, of wwww.conocetucomarca.com, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 423355 4581717
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]