Poggio di Garfagnana / Poggio San Terenzo / Poggio Camporgiano

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08087POG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa di S. Biagio
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]
Church Notes: some 10thC manuscript mentions "la ecclesia Sancti Terentii et Sancti Johannis Baptiste [...] plebem battisimalis sito Rogiana", but after 1000 AD that church may have lost the privilege of baptism in favour of the pieve di San Pietro in Careggine; that medieval church may be the site of the present San Biagio's, which is an 18thC re-building
Church Address: Via S. Biagio, 12, 55031 Poggio LU, Italy
Site Location: Lucca, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Garfagnana mountain district, 2 km from Poggio
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Lucca
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one of the 10thC(?) church here)
Font Notes:
Baptismal font of the now reconstructed Romanesque church of the 10th century ["all'interno è notevole il Fonte Battesimale in pietra serena"] [source: http://users.libero.it/fondricci/att.htm]; the font mentioned appears to be 16th-century and made of marble.

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