Magacela
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design element - motifs - ball
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cosme Alvarez, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Cosme Alvarez [www.nuevoportal.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail 2/4/2003)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cosme Alvarez, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Cosme Alvarez [www.nuevoportal.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail 2/4/2003)
view of basin
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cosme Alvarez, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Cosme Alvarez [www.nuevoportal.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail 2/4/2003)
symbol - cross - Alcántara cross
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cosme Alvarez, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph by Cosme Alvarez [www.nuevoportal.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail 2/4/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04834MAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Ana
Font Location in Church: Inside, W end, in the baptistery chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anne
Church Address: 06468 Magacela, Badajoz, Spain
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the BA-084, about 15 km S of Villanueva de la Serena (the church is located inside the ruined castle)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of Mérida-Badajoz
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cosme Alvarez, of www.nuevoportal.com, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30S 262964 4309232
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.9, -5.733333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 54′ 0″ N, 5° 44′ 0″ W
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, vol. 2: 320