San Lorenzo de Veraguas
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15765LOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1630?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance? / Baroque?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Lorenzo de Veraguas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: San Lorenzo en Veraguas, Soná, Provincia de Veraguas, Panama
Site Location: Veraguas, Panama, Central America
Font Notes:
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Noted in Molina Castillo (2008) as a chalice-shaped baptismal font made of mahogany probably by Fray Adrián de Santo Tomás [NB: Molina Castillo (ibid.) notes that the reference to this font -and one other made of stone- in the records of a visitation by Domingo Sánchez Iradi does not clearly differentiate between stoup and font in its terminology].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood, mahogany
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Molina Castillo, Mario José, Veragua, la tierra de Colón y de Urracá: estudio geo-histórico, urbanístico, económico, social, político y cultural de Veraguas, Chiriqui y Bocas del Toro, 1502-1821, Panamá: Arte Gráfico Impresores, 2008, t. 1: 390