Granatula de Calatrava / Granátula / Granátula de Calatrava / Oreto / Oretum

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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: around the sides and underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2012 by Adrian Shubert for BSI

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2012 by Adrian Shubert for BSI

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2012 by Adrian Shubert for BSI

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2009

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Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2012 by Adrian Shubert for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18048GRA

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Ana [orig. from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel de Añavete]

Church Location: Constitucion, 1 - 13360 Granatula de Calatrava - Ciudad Real

Country Name: Spain

Location: Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha

Directions to Site: Located on the CM-413, SE of Ciudad Real capital [NB: we have not been able to locate the abandoned hamlet of Añavete]

Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis de Toledo

Historical Region: Castilla la Nueva / Oretania

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the altar

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic? / Late Gothic?

Cognate Fonts: other such fonts in central Spain

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Adrian Schubert for the photographs of this font

Church Notes: Oreto/Oretum [the earlier name of Granatula] was an episcopal see under the archdiocese of Toledo at the time

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of reddish stone, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and a ribbed pattern all around the sides and underbowl; raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a round moulded lower base decorated with graded mouldings; on a minute square plinth. The font is a competent but not refined work. It is now located near the altar, probably not its original location. The church itself dates from the 14th century; the font could be from that date or up to two centuries later, as the design was retained throughout that period in this area of Castilla-La Mancha. The local church guide prepared in 2004 by Santiago Donoso García [http://oretum.es/iglesia/iglesia.pdf] [accessed 1 June 2012] informs that this baptismal font was originally from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel in Añavete, and was brought into Santa Ana by the inhabitants of that hamlet when it was abandoned in the 16th century. [cf. Index entry for Oreto for an Early-Christian font nearby].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30S 435472 4294321

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining