Torquemada

INFORMATION

FontID: 07022TOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia
Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in El Cerrato area, not far from Palencia capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Baptismal font in which Catarina of Austria [Catherine, consort of John III, king of Portugal] was baptised. The church itself is 15th-16th-century, as is probably the font. The town is the birth place of the notorious Thomas of Torquemada, Grand Inqusitor.