Jerez de los Caballeros

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Scene Description: [NB: the photographer did not supply us with any information other than this font was in Jerez de los Caballeros]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04833JER

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Country Name: Spain

Location: Badajoz, Extremadura

Directions to Site: Located in the SW corner of the province, near the borders with Seville and Portugal

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Gothic

Church Notes: A church may have existed here as far back as the Visigothic period, but the earliest documented record is 1689; the baptistery chapel is however Gothic. (a/p Mélida (1925, v. 2, p. 285)

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Described in Mélida (1925) as a stone holy-water stoup in the Gothic style and probably dating to the medieval church of which no documentation exists.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.322208, -6.771453

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 19′ 19.95″ N, 6° 46′ 17.23″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Mélida, José Ramón, Catálogo monumental de España: provincia de Badajoz [3 vols.], Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, 1925