Leshten

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Image Source: Digital photograph supplied by Elizabeth Watts via Colin Hinson

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Image Source: Digital photograph supplied by Elizabeth Watts via Colin Hinson

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Image Source: Digital photograph supplied by Elizabeth Watts via Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 October 2005)

INFORMATION

FontID: 10885LES

Object Type: Baptismal Font?

Church/Chapel: Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva

Church Patron Saints: St. Paraskeva [NB: not a person, but the personification of Friday, which became an individual saint through misconception]

Country Name: Bulgaria

Location: Blagoevgrad

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Garmen,15 km NE of Gotze Delchev, about 200 km from Sofia, in SW Bulgaria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 19th century

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Elizabeth Watts, of Bempton, Yorkshire, for the information on and photographs of this object. We are also grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for bringing the Strandja font to our attention]

Font Notes: Click to view

Metal object consisting of a hemispherical basin, plain except for two handles at the upper sides, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; believed to be used for baptisms in this church dating to 1836. [NB: a similar object can be found in the church of St. Petka, in Strandja, also in Bulgaria]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round