Salamanca No. 1
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 12 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1999 by BSI
view of church exterior - transept - tower
Scene Description: 'Torre del Gallo', so called for the weather vane on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © chicadelatele, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph tane 15 October 2006 by chicadelatele [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Salamanca_Romanesque.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rafael Mateos Dorado, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Rafael Mateos Dorado for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Taveneaux, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2012 by Antoine Taveneaux [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interiores_de_la_Catedral_Vieja_de_Salamanca_05.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - retable
![main alter mid-15thC retable by Daniel Delli [aka Dello Delli]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130421005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: main alter mid-15thC retable by Daniel Delli [aka Dello Delli]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Cardenal, 2004
Image Source: Digital photograph taken 18 November 2004 by Lourdes Cardenal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salamanca_retablo_catedral_vieja_lou.JPG] [accessed 21 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - tower - painting
![13thC and 14thC mural paintings in the Capilla de San Martín [aka Capilla del Aceite], beneath the bell tower](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130421008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: 13thC and 14thC mural paintings in the Capilla de San Martín [aka Capilla del Aceite], beneath the bell tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Fumero, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2008 by Antonio Fumero [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capila_del_aceite.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rafael Mateos Dorado, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Rafael Mateos Dorado for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rafael Mateos Dorado, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2013 by Rafael Mateos Dorado for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02374SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Catedral Vieja [aka Santa María de la Sede]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Calle Rúa Mayor, 46, 37008 Salamanca -- Tel.: +34 923 27 06 14
Country Name: Spain
Location: Salamanca, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Salamanca
Historical Region: Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the apse of the N aisle
Century and Period: 16th - 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the canon in charge for providing full access to the cathedral fonts, to Rafael Mateos Dorado and to Josu Fernández Villaverde, for their additional photos of this font
Church Notes: church founded by bishop Jerome of Périgord in the 12thC, perhaps over an earlier Visigothic or early-medieval building site; completed in the 14thC -- for detailed views see www.castillodeloarre.org/Salamanca/02-SalamanCatedral1.htm [accessed 21 April 2013]
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: chalice-shaped font decorated with mouldings on the basin and base; short round pedestal and square lower base. Late date, probably Baroque. [NB: any claims of antiquity for this font must surely be way off the mark, unless it was re-carved at a later date -- we have no information on the font from the original church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.960472, -5.666667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 57′ 37.7″ N, 5° 40′ 0″ W
UTM: 30T 275584 4537794
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric - mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12.5-13.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 100 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm
Basin Depth: 50 cm
Basin Total Height: 60 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: Metal staples present at the rim