Gibraleon / Gibraleón

Illustrated in Carrasco Terriza et al. (2006), who note that the font was already documented in the visitation records of 1682; said to have originated in a palace where it served as water fountain; the large cylindrical basin of red marble has shields charged with an emblem of a horshoe; between the shields are a number of less prominent motifs and symbols: a fortress, a roundel, a motif resembling a bundle of nails that one source identifies as the "yugo y las flechas", the symbol of the Catholic Kings Isabel and Ferdinand; there is a metal reinforcement band around the basin, just below the rim; it is now raised on short stone legs that are probably unrelated. The interior of the basin appears to have been re-tooled or re-cut. [NB: the nearby Iglesia de Santiago goes back at least to the 14th century, according to Carrasco Terriza et al. (2006), but its font is late-18th century].