Nocera Superiore / Nocera dei Pagani
Image copyright © Lasteyrie, 1929
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view of baptistery interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lasteyrie, 1929
Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 106)
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Comune di Nocera Superiore, 2007
Image Source: [http://www.comune.nocera-superiore.sa.it/it/itinerarioarcheologico/battistero.html] [accessed 14 July 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 05487NOC
Church/Chapel: Battistero di Santa Maria Maggiore
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Italy
Location: Campania
Directions to Site: Located near Naples (Autostrada A3 (Napoli-Salerno -- uscita Nocera Inferiore)
Font Location in Church: Inside the baptistery
Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Bond (1908: 18) as an Early Christian baptistery dated to the 5th century. Plan illustrated in Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 106) [after Isabelle] showing a piscina octagonal on the outside and round on the inside. In Davies (1962: 4) [after Stettler]. Noted in the website of the Comune di Nocera Superiore [http://www.comune.nocera-superiore.sa.it/it/itinerarioarcheologico/battistero.html] [accessed 14 July 2007]: "Nella struttura è presente anche un deambulatorio, che racchiude la parte centrale, dove si trova una vasca di notevoli dimensioni adibita a fonte battesimale, anch'essa circondata da colonne".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929