Caceres No. 2 / Cáceres

INFORMATION

FontID: 02057CAC
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, near the main door
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Mentioned in Andres Ordax, 1995 (p. 157) as one of two holy-water stoups near the main entrance of the church, this one ornamented with two heraldic shields on each of the four faces of the rectangular bowl. The illustration in Garcia Mogollo's book on the Concatedral (Garcia Mogollo, 1993, p. 39?) shows a basin in the shape of an inverted pyramid resting on four slender shafts.

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, type unknown
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Andrés Ordax, Salvador, Monumentos artísticos de Extremadura, 2. ed. rev., Mérida, Spain: Junta Regional de Extremadura, 1995
García Mogollo, Florencio-Javier, La Concatedral de Cáceres: Santa María La Mayor, León: EDILESA, 1993