Cornocchio / Sant'Agata nr. Scarperia

INFORMATION

FontID: 05014COR
Church/Chapel: Pieve di Sant'Agata
Church Patron Saints: St. Agatha [aka Agata, Agatha of Sicily, Agueda]
Country Name: Italy
Location: Firenze, Toscana
Directions to Site: Located 4 kms north of Scarperia, in the Mugello valley, to the north of Florence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, inside a very artistic low stone railing
Century and Period: 8th century, Early Christian / Medieval
Church Notes: The Phaidon guide [cf. supra] mentions some 12th-century reliefs from a dismantled pulpit, one of which is illustrated in Biehl (1926: Tafel 112a) and a tabernacle by G. della Robbia.
Biehl (1926: Tafel 112b, 113a) illustrates the beautiful stone railing which surrounds the font, but does not show the font itself which the Phaidon guide dates to the 8th century (Florence and Tuscany, 1986, p. 21). NB: according to the WEB site for the "comuni" of Mugello , on p. 2, Sant'Agata is defined as a "frazione di Scarperia"; it gives a description of the baptismal font in the Pieve di Sant'Agata as "fonte battesimale del 1508, un blocco ottagonale di pietra serena eretto dal pievano Leonardo Dati". Another source [www.ilgalletto.net] gives the date of the font as 1503 "L’interno a tre navate conserva un fonte battesimale costruito nel 1503, composto di un corpo ottagonale di pietra arenaria e circondato da una balaustra"]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

2001. [URL discontinued / non active]. URL: http://www.mugello.net/isti/comuni/Scarperia.htm.
Biehl, Walter, Toskanische Plastik des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, Leipzig: Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1926
Phaidon, Florence and Tuscany: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, New York: Prentice Hall, 1986