Pietra Gavina / Pietragavina

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07949PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1951?
Font Century and Period/Style: 20th century
Church / Chapel Name: Tempio della Fraternità dei Popoli [Chiesa di San Marzano]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Address: Frazione Cella, 51, 27057 Varzi PV, Italy -- Tel.: +39 348 044 9423
Site Location: Pavia, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SP91, SSW of Varzi, about 25 km SE of Voghera
Additional Comments: MUST USE: recycled font: made from the breech-block of a field gun from World War II
Font Notes:
Although excluded by the date of its manufacture, 1951, this baptismal font is included in the Index for the strangeness of its origin: it is made from the breech-block of a field artillery piece from Worl War II. The whole church, the church for the Fraternity of Peoples, built on the former 15th-century Church of San Marzano, is built with remnants of military campaigns from the war. [source: www.viviloltrepocom/percorsi/piatragavina]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal