Brena Alta No. 2 / Breña Alta

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12260BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar
Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at Los Sauces, Santiago de Arucas, Valsequillo and La Laguna, all in the Canary Islands
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol de Breña Alta
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 16thC rural chapel
Church Address: Calle la Constitución, 3, 38713 San Pedro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain -- Tel.: +34 922 43 70 77
Site Location: Las Palmas, Canarias, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the LP-202, 9 km from Santa Cruz de La Palma, 23 km from Los Llanos, on the island of La Palma
Historical Region: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Additional Comments: imported font (from peninsular Spain)
Font Notes:
Hernández Perera (1952), after Gestoso y Pérez (1903), notes a beautiful ceramic (glazed earthenware) Mudéjar font of the late 15th or early 16th century in this church. These same sources note a group of similar fonts of Sevillian manufacture and sent to the Canary Islands which includes Breña Alta, Los Sauces, Gáldar (Arucas), La Laguna and Valsequillo [antes en Telde]. The Cabildo de Tenerife informs that the ceramic fonts were originally made in Seville and believed to have been brought to Tenerife for the baptism of the native Guanches [source: www.puntoinfo.idecnet.com]

COORDINATES

UTM: 28R 227795 3173661
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 28.66152, -17.785095
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 28° 39′ 41.47″ N, 17°47′6.34″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic
Font Shape: pedestal font

REFERENCES

  • Gestoso y Pérez, José, Historia de los barros vidriados sevillanos: desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, Sevilla: Imp. La Andalucía Moderna, 1903, p. 139 and fn1
  • Hernández Perera, José, "Una pila bautismal de cerámica vidriada sevillana en Gran Canaria", 25, 99 (1952: jul./sept.), Archivo español de arte, 1952, pp. 287; p. 292-293