Zafra

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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 font and cover

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 font in context

Image Source: image from https://loscaminosdelatierra.wordpress.com/pilas-bautismales/espana/zafra-iglesia-de-la-magdalena-1/ [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

Image Source: image from https://loscaminosdelatierra.wordpress.com/pilas-bautismales/espana/zafra-iglesia-de-la-magdalena-4/ [accessed 6 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04850ZAF

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de la Candelaria [formerly Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Calle Tetuán, 4, CP-06300, Zafra, Badajoz, España -- Tel.: +34 924 550 128

Country Name: Spain

Location: Badajoz, Extremadura

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 Location in Church: In the Capilla de la Virgen de Valvanera

Date: 1309?

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Gothic / Mudéjar

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: The collegiate church was built in the mid-16th century on the ruined site of a previous temple.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.426294, -6.419324

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 25′ 34.66″ N, 6° 25′ 9.56″ W

UTM: 29S 725276 4256269

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 Notes: Described in Mélida [cf. infra] as a psalm ["un salmo"]; another source [cf. Font notes] reports the date 1309 on it

Inscription Location: around the upper rim

Inscription Text: "1309"

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