Merida No. 4 / Emerita Augusta / Mérida

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design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 11018MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia
Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida
Church Location: Avenida Extremadura, 13, 06800 Mérida, Badajoz, Spain -- Tel.: +34 924 30 00 66
Country Name: Spain
Location: Badajoz, Extremadura
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Mérida-Badajoz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of marble consisting of roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a torus-scotia-torus moulding on the upper basin side, and a thinner moulding on the under bowl; the inner well of the basin is round, unlined and has a central drain hole, now plugged; moulded cylindrical pedestal base on a small moulded square lower base. Also inside the church is a holy-water stoup of coloured marble, consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding all around the side, and a deeply-carved diagonal concave rib pattern on the underbowl; slender pedestal base and round lower base, both plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.920648, -6.342161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 55′ 14.33″ N, 6° 20′ 31.78″ W
UTM: 29S 4311330 730421
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: the drain hole is now blocked
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]