Jerez de los Caballeros
Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
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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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan José Castilla, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in http://visitarextremadura.blogspot.ca/2014/06/jerez-de-los-caballeros.html [accessed 5 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan José Castilla, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in http://visitarextremadura.blogspot.ca/2014/06/jerez-de-los-caballeros.html [accessed 5 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04833JER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
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) -- there are four parish church in Jerez de los Caballeros
Church Address: C. Llano San Bartolomé, 8, 06380 Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the SW corner of the province, near the borders with Seville and Portugal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of Mérida-Badajoz
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the earlier [Visigothic?] church here)
Font Notes:
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Described in Mélida (1925) as a stone holy-water stoup in the Gothic style and probably from the medieval church of which no documentation exists.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 694721 4243796
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.322208, -6.771453
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, vol. 2, p. 287