Zafra
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: B&W version of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Doalex, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 January 2013 by Doalex [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_la_Candelaria_de_Zafra_1.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2015]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: one of several 16thC (?) stoups in this church
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view of stoup
Scene Description: one of several 16thC (?) stoups in this church
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view of stoup
Scene Description: one of several 16thC (?) stoups in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loscaminosdelatierra, 2015
Image Source: image from https://loscaminosdelatierra.wordpress.com/pilas-bautismales/espana/zafra-iglesia-de-la-magdalena-2/ [accessed 6 March 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04850ZAF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1309?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Gothic / Mudéjar
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de la Candelaria [formerly Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria]
Font Location in Church: In the Capilla de la Virgen de Valvanera
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The collegiate church was built in the mid-16th century on the ruined site of a previous temple.
Church Address: Calle Tetuán, 4, CP-06300, Zafra, Badajoz, España -- Tel.: +34 924 550 128
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located towards the centre-south of the province, about 75 km ESE of Badajoz city
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Mérida-Badajoz
Font Notes:
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Described in Mélida (1925) as a stone baptismal font in the Gothic style, and probably dated to the building of this church, ca. 1546; both the basin and the are octagonal, and there is an inscription in Gothic characters around the upper rim [inscription text not available, but it is supposed to contain a psalm, according to this source]. Another source [www.guiaesp.com/zafra] reports it as a beautiful octagonal baptismal font of carved marble, decorated in the Gothic-Mudejar style and bearing an inscription with the date 1309.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 725276 4256269
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.426294, -6.419324
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 25′ 34.66″ N, 6° 25′ 9.56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers and letters?
Inscription Location: around the upper rim
Inscription Text: "1309"
Inscription Notes: Described in Mélida [cf. infra] as a psalm ["un salmo"]; another source [cf. Font notes] reports the date 1309 on it
Inscription Source: Mélida (1925, v. 2: 442)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with carved top and metal handle
REFERENCES
- Mélida, José Ramón, Catálogo monumental de España: provincia de Badajoz [3 vols.], Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, 1925, vol. 2: 442