Bordon / Bordón / Carrasca de Bordón

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by David de la Garma Ramírez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: Infancy cycle capital

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 9 July 2018 by Manel Zaera [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Bordón_-Maestrazgo_-Teruel_(42403862765).jpg] [accessed 20 June 2022]

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: Infancy cycle capital

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 9 July 2018 by Manel Zaera [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Bordón_-Maestrazgo_-Teruel_(43308065211).jpg] [accessed 20 June 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Del arte mueble que se ha conservado de época medieval tenemos la pila bautismal extraordinariamente austera. Es de forma caliciforme y su copa es totalmente lisa." -- notice the large notch cut into the upper rim to place a side lock for the cover

Image Source: digital photograph by David de la Garma Ramírez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 24048BOR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Virgen de la Carrasca de Bordón

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 44563 Bordón, Teruel, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Teruel, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located off local road A-226, 15-20 km WNW of Morella, about 100 km NE of Teruel capital

Historical Region: Maestrazgo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of Arteguias [ [https://m.arteguias.com], for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: 13th-14thC church, probably built on the site of an original Knights Templar chapel; modified 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Arteguias [https://m.arteguias.com/monumentos/iglesiabordon.htm] [accessed 20 June 2022]. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical plain basin raised on a squat round-to-square lower base. No cover present now but the basin has a large notch cut into the upper rim to place a side lock for the cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.686139, -0.322894

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 41′ 10.1″ N, 0° 19′ 22.42″ W

UTM: 30T 726226 4507363

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]