Bitonto No. 2
Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image and permission received from the authors
Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - round - double arch-head
Scene Description: all around the upper surface of the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
design element - patterns - ribbed - large - 16 ribs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
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design element - patterns - intertwined vegetation
Scene Description: on the arches and supports of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: all around; damaged or cut in some spots, perhaps related to font cover anchorings?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Piazza Cattedrale"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Giugi30, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2022 by Giugi30 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DSF5161.jpg] [accessed 4 April 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - plant
Scene Description: tall lilly-like plants all around the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a July 2000 photograph by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03484BIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-01
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Duomo di Bitonto / Concattedrale di Maria SS. Assunta
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, near the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church of 1095 on the site of a palaeo-Christian site and of a later, 8thC building
Church Address: Piazza Cattedrale, numero 19, 70032 Bitonto BA, Italy -- Tel.: +39 080 375 2100
Site Location: Bari, Puglia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the SP231, in the old city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Bari-Bitonto
Font Notes:
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Stunning chalice-shaped Romanesque(?) font covered in beautiful ornamentation; the basin has a band of round arches or scallops on the upper surface of the rim; the outer surface of the basin is covered in an Arabesque floral pattern, except on the actual area of the sixteen protruding ribs; there are two round mouldings which connect the basin with the stem of the base; the lower half of the latter has a lovely blind arcade of round arches.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on and photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 641906 4551944
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.106389, 16.69
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 6′ 23″ N, 16° 41′ 24″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: Side drainage system
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 135 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 153.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 46 cm*
Basin Total Height: 64 cm*
Height of Base: 59 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Anne & Thomas Heck