Merida No. 2 / Emerita Augusta / Mérida

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04837MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Concatedral de Santa María la Mayor de Mérida / Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: present church said to stand on site of disappeared Catedral de Santa Jerusalén, see of the archbishopric of Visigothic Emérita
Church Address: Pl. de España, 06800 Mérida, Badajoz, Spain
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-630, 50-55 km E of Badajow capital -- the church is located on the E bank of the river, just N of the Alcazaba
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Mérida-Badajoz
Font Notes:
Described in Mélida (1925) as a granite baptismal font of the 16th century in Renaissance style; the basin is hexagonal and ornamented with children [putti?] and grotesque animals ["bichas y niños"]. The base is shaped like a Roman altar and has bucrania and cloth garlands ["el pie, que figura ara romana lleva bucráneos y paños a modo de guirnaldas"]. The author offers the ornamentation on this font as proof of the influence which the Roman monuments of Mérida effected on artists. (Ibid, v. 2, p. 345)

COORDINATES

UTM: 29S 4310838 730004
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.916333, -6.347139
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 54′ 58.8″ N, 6° 20′ 49.7″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

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. 345