San Lorenzo in Veraguas

INFORMATION

FontID: 15765LOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Lorenzo
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: Panama
Location: Veraguas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1630?
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance? / Baroque?
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