Pietra Gavina / Pietragavina

INFORMATION

FontID: 07949PIE
Church/Chapel: Tempio della Fraternità dei Popoli [Chiesa di San Marzano]
Country Name: Italy
Location: Pavia province, Lombardia
Directions to Site: Located near Varzi, about 25 km SE of Voghera
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1951?
Century and Period: 20th century,
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 deom 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