Valencia No. 3
Results: 4 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07146VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Esteban
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: 17thC church re-building of an earlier mosque
Church Address: Plaça de Sant Esteve, 2, Ciutat Vella, 46003 València, Valencia, Spain
Site Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the historical city centre of Valencia capital, just SE of La Seu
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Valencia
Additional Comments: famous person font: Baptismal font in which St. Vincent Ferrer was baptised [1350-1419]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font in which St. Vincent Ferrer was baptised [1350-1419] [source: www.archivalencia.org]. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly bucked-shaped basin decorated with a burning toch on the side, and a vine all around its underbowl, and raised on a round-to-octagonal lower base of white marble; it has gilded additions(?) of an episcopal mitre, a book, etc. on the base side. The font cover is flat and round. The font and cover are illustrated in a December 2009 photograph by Joanbanjo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_baptismal_de_l'església_de_sant_Esteve_de_València.JPG] and another 22 January 2015 photograph also by Joanbanjo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Església_de_sant_Esteve_de_València,_pila_baptismal.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2025].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30S 725940 4372909
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 39.476128, -0.373225
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 39° 28′ 34.06″ N, 0° 22′ 23.61″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]