Merida No. 4 / Emerita Augusta / Mérida
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2005
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2005
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juanje 2712, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2010 by Juanje 2712 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mérida_-_Basílica_de_Santa_Eulalia_-_DSC_2102_W.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2015]
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view of stoup
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2005
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11018MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2005-06-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eulalia of Mérida
Church Address: Avenida Extremadura, 13, 06800 Mérida, Badajoz, Spain -- Tel.: +34 924 30 00 66
Site Location: Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Church located in the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Mérida-Badajoz
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 4311330 730421
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.920648, -6.342161
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 55′ 14.33″ N, 6° 20′ 31.78″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: the drain hole is now blocked
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]