Santiago de Compostela No. 1
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 7 records
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 1999 by BSI
view of church exterior in context - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro J Pacheco, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2013 by Pedro J Pacheco [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panoramica_Catedral_de_Santiago_de_Compostela.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diego Delso, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2015 by Diego Delso [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral,_Santiago_de_Compostela,_España,_2015-09-22,_DD_13.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Scene Description: in its fancier 2016 setting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved (e-mail of 10 November 2016)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Eccles, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2023 by Andy Eccles
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 July 2023)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: in its 1999 setting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: in its fancier 2016 setting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved (e-mail of 10 November 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02383SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Catedral de Santiago
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Praza do Obradoiro, s/n, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain -- Tel.: +34 981 58 35 48
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santiago de Compostela
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the south crossing door.
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Pre-Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the canons of this cathedral for providing full access to the fonts and the time to document them with very short notice, despite the demands created by the thousands of pilgrims and visitors crowding the temple at all times. We are also grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Andy Eccles for their additional photographs of the font
Church Notes: first chapel 8thC (?); first church 829; pre-Romanesque church 899 destroyed by Al-Mansur; present building 1075-1211, with Gothic and Baroque additions
Font Notes:
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The large trapezoidal marble font situated to the right of the entrance looks somewhat derelict and seems out of place in this majestic church now. Lampérez y Romea (1930, t. 1, p. 326) mentions a polygonal baptistery, the "Baptisterio de San Juan", which existed here until one of the many renovations and expansions of this cathedral.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.880602, -8.544377
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 50.17″ N, 8° 32′ 39.76″ W
UTM: 29T 537209 4747657
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (black and grey)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: Trapezoidal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Rim Thickness: 10-13 cm*
Basin Total Height: 66 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 127 x 83 cm* (top) 95 x 55 cm* (bottom)
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
REFERENCES
Lampérez y Romea, Vicente, Historia de la arquitectura cristiana española en la Edad Media, segun el estudio de los elementos y los monumentos, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1930