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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image & permission received from the authors
INFORMATION
FontID: 03481BOV
Church/Chapel: Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Via San Pietro, 22, 71023 Bovino FG, Italy
Country Name: Italy
Location: Foggia, Puglia
Directions to Site: Located off the SP121, 30+ km SW of Foggia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese di Bovino
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on and images of this font
Church Notes: built on a former pagan temple dedicated to Hercules in 1099; much modified since
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font noted in Città di Bovino [https://www.comune.bovino.fg.it/bovino/zf/index.php/servizi-aggiuntivi/index/index/idtesto/20070] [accessed 4 April 2025]: "fonte battesimale, rappresentato da una grande vasca emisferica in pietra che poggia su una base decorata di stile bizantino." The vessel at Bovino S. Pietro's looks like a puzzle, and not a very good or interesting one at that. The coarse granite basin is oval, crudely made and of uncertain date; the stem of the base is marble with round mouldings and obviously of very different paternity, as is the lower base, a square block (upside down?) with foliage motif on the sides.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 580432 4616920
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, mixed stones
Font Shape: oval (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Diameter (includes rim): 74 x 84 cm* (diameters of the elipse)
Basin Depth: 37 cm*
Basin Total Height: 60 cm*
Height of Base: 60 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 120 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Anne & Thomas Heck