Badajoz
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04821BAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1523?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Catedral Metropolitana de San Juan Bautista
Font Location in Church: In the NW chapel, now called Capilla del Bautismo [formerly Capilla de las Angustias]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: cathedral church built on the former site of a Visgothic church, later a mosque, between 1250 and the 15thC
Church Address: Pl. España, 1, 06002 Badajoz, Spain
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Badajoz is located off the E-90, just E of the border with Portugal -- The cathedral is located in the historical centre of the city
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of Mérida-Badajoz
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one(s) from the earlier Visigothic and medieval churches here)
Font Notes:
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Described in Mélida (1925) as a baptismal font located in the centre of the chapel and made of alabaster; it bears the coat-of-arms of Fray Bernardo de Mesa, who was bishop of Badajoz at the time of the construction of the chapel and the font, ca. 1523.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 676140 4305247
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.878444, -6.969414
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 52′ 42.4″ N, 6° 58′ 9.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, alabaster
REFERENCES
- Mélida, José Ramón, Catálogo monumental de España: provincia de Badajoz [3 vols.], Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, 1925, vol. 2, p. 101