Magacela

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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BBU01: design element - motifs - ball

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LB01: symbol - cross - Alcántara cross

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LB02: coat of arms

Scene Description: charged with five shells, unidentified, a/p description in Mélida (1925, v. 2, p. 320)

view of basin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04834MAG
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Ana
Church Patron Saints: St. Anne
Country Name: Spain
Location: Badajoz, Extremadura
Directions to Site: Located abot 15 km S of Villanueva de la Serena (the church is located inside the ruined castle, in the easternmost side)
Font Location in Church: At the foot of the church, in the baptistery chapel
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Described in Mélida (1925) as a granite baptismal font probably of the 13th century; hemispheric basin ornamented with a band of ball motif or bezant at the rim, and a blind arcade of round arches below. The base has foliage and, at the front, an Alcántara cross and a shield charged with five shells. [We are grateful to Cosme Alvarez, of www.nuevoportal.com, for the image of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

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