Cuenca No. 2 / Kūnka / Qūnka
Image copyright © Jaime Zabalozuazola, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2021)
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view of font
Scene Description: the font originally from Villarejo de la Fuente, seen here in its later location inside the church of San Pedro, in Cuenca capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Zabalozuazola, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2021 by Jaime Zabalozuazola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2021)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the detail is worn now
design element - motifs - moulding
view of basin - upper view
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro in Cuenca capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rafa Esteve, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 November 2015 by Rafa Esteve [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuenca_-_Iglesia_de_San_Pedro_2015-11-17.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Maria Magdalena in Villarejo de Fuentes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B25es, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 May 2018 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villarejo_de_Fuentes_09.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Rodríguez Zapata, 2020
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1998 photograph by José Luis Rodríguez Zapata, in El Arte en Cuenca [www.elarteencuenca.es/blog/pila-bautismal/cuenca-san-pedro] [accessed 18 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16962VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro, Cuenca capital [originally from the old church at Villarejo de Fuentes]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): [the dedication of he Villarejo church is to St Mary Magdaken]
Church Notes: the present Iglesia parroquial de Santa Mª Magdalena is 18thC; there is a 17thC Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Fuentes nearby that may have had medieval origins
Church Address: [NB: address and coordinates are for Villarejo de F.] Plaza San Antonio, 6, Villarejo de Fuentes, 16432, Cuenca, Spain
Site Location: Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Villarejo de Fuentes is located off (SE) the C-3009 - C-3120 crossroads, 60-70 km WSW of Cuenca capital. The Iglesia of San Pedro in Cuenca capital is located at Calle Trabuco, s/n, 16001 Cuenca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 649 69 36 00
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Cuenca
Historical Region: La Mancha de Cuenca
Additional Comments: moved font / re-cycled font (the one from Villarejo de Fuentes) -- disappeared font? (the original one from San Pedro de Cuenca)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009) as a Romanesque baptismal font originally from the old church at Villarejo de Fuentes. Noted and illustrated in José Luis Rodríguez Zapata's El Arte en Cuenca (1998) [www.elarteencuenca.es/blog/pila-bautismal/cuenca-san-pedro] [accessed 18 September 2020]: "Se decora con moldura de bocel liso en su borde superior y una franja sin decoración bajo ella enmarcada por una línea incisa inferior que la separa de unos arcos de medio punto apoyados sobre capiteles y pilastras planas que terminan en la ancha base del vaso con una doble moldura horizontal." The basin is roughly hemispherical, decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and a blind arcade of round arches on columns with capitals all around; the squat base, wider at the top, is decorated with graded mouldings. No cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Jaime Zabalozuazola for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30S 526047 4404319
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 39.788421, -2.695791
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 39° 47′ 18.32″ N, 2° 41′ 44.85″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 137 cm*
Basin Total Height: 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca (2009)
REFERENCES
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Cuenca, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009, p. 193