Bitonto No. 1

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design element - motifs - vine - grape

Scene Description: All around its middle

Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck

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inscription - detail

Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bitonto - Chiesa di San Francesco da Paola"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2023 by Manuter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bitonto_-_Chiesa_di_San_Francesco_da_Paola_-_2023-09-16_23-24-00_001.JPG] [accessed 4 April 2025]

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Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors

INFORMATION

FontID: 03483BIT

Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale di San Francesco da Paola [formerly at Santa Catherina d'Alessandria]

Church Patron Saints: St. Francis of Paola [patron saint of the current church]

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for San Francesco] Piazza Aldo Moro, 70032 Bitonto (BA), Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Bari, Puglia

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the SP231, in the old city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Bari-Bitonto

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, rear of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?) [basin only], Romanesque [altered font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on and photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Chalice-shaped font of the 12th century in the Romanesque style has a band of grapevine ornamentation around its middle and an inscription above it. It appears to have lost its original base and rests now somewhat precariously on a borrowed base. The font was originally at the church of Santa Catherina d'Alessandria.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.108975, 16.691611

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 6′ 32.31″ N, 16° 41′ 29.8″ E

UTM: 33T 642035 4552233

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 100 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 116 cm*

Basin Depth: 31 cm*

Basin Total Height: 52 cm*

Height of Base: 58 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Anne & Thomas Heck

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: upper basin side

Inscription Text: "HIC PIAT INTER IUS"

Inscription Source: A. & T. Heck on-site