Santo Domingo

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue with permission to reproduce/use (e-mail 13 Nov. 2009)

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LID01: inscription

Scene Description: partial transcription dating the cover [and the font?] to 1908

Image Source: detail of a digital photrograph taken 21 October 2009 by Chus Martinez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue with permission to reproduce/use (e-mail 13 Nov. 2009)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photrograph taken 21 October 2009 by Chus Martinez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue with permission to reproduce/use (e-mail 13 Nov. 2009)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photrograph taken 21 October 2009 by Chus Martinez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue with permission to reproduce/use (e-mail 13 Nov. 2009)

INFORMATION

FontID: 15718DOM

Church/Chapel: Catedral Metropolitana de Santa María de la Encarnación

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: República Dominicana

Location: Santo Domingo

Directions to Site: Located in the old colonial town centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1908?

Century and Period: 20th century (early?), Modern

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chus Martinez, of Gijon, Spain, for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Octagonal basin raised on a cluster of thin colonnettes; cross and charged shield [one has a cardinal's emblem] decoration on the sides; The [stone?] cover with insciption recording the donation [of the font as well?] to 1908, although unfounded local claims state an early origin and the legend that its gold decoration was tstripped off the font by Sir Francis Drake [not much love lost for the English pirates to be found on this island]. [NB: the Cathedral dates from ca. 1540,

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: partial transcription only

Inscription Location: on the sides of the cover

Inscription Text: "[...] DONAVIT ANNO DOMINI / MCMVIII [...]"

Inscription Source: photograph received in BSI

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1907 / modern

Material: stone?,