Caceres No. 1 / Cáceres

INFORMATION

FontID: 02056CAC
Church/Chapel: Concatedral de Santa Maria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Pl. Sta. María, 3, Centro-Casco Antiguo, 10003 Cáceres, Spain -- Tel.: +34 927 21 53 13
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cáceres, Extremadura
Font Location in Church: Inside, by the Capilla del Sagrario, near the main door.
Date: 1552
Century and Period: 16th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Pedro Gómez
Listed in Bueno Flores (1990: 148) as a baptismal font brought to Cáceres from Estremoz, Portugal [NB: this author simply states that the font "se trajo, en 1552, de Estremoz (Portugal)"]. Described and illustrated in García Mogollo (1993: p. ?? with ill.): large font (?) in Estremoz marble, carved by the Portuguese master Pedro Gomez in 1552. It is a rectangular bowl, one side of which appears to be embedded in the wall, supported on the opposite side by two tall columns of dark marble; the bowl sides are carved in intricate vegetable motifs, with a hint of 'mudéjar' flavour. This "font" is defined however as a "stoup" in Andrés Ordax (1995: 157 and ill. on p. 158), as part of a pair in the Concatedral.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 39.4745, -6.3701
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 39° 28′ 28.2″ N, 6° 22′ 12.36″ W
UTM: 29S 726214 4372736

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (from Estremoz, Portugal)
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

REFERENCES

Andrés Ordax, Salvador, Monumentos artísticos de Extremadura, 2. ed. rev., Mérida, Spain: Junta Regional de Extremadura, 1995
Bueno Flores, Antonio, Cáceres: conjunto monumental, Madrid: Editorial García Plata, 1990
García Mogollo, Florencio-Javier, La Concatedral de Cáceres: Santa María La Mayor, León: EDILESA, 1993