Jaen No. 2 / Jaén
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view of font cover
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view of font cover - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2011 by Francisco Miguel Merino Laguna [www.redjaen.es/francis] [accessed 5 April 2012]
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view of well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Miguel Merino Laguna, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2011 by Francisco Miguel Merino Laguna [www.redjaen.es/francis] [accessed 5 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17981JAE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Andrés y Santa Capilla
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Jaen, Andalucía
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Jaén, Archidiócesis de Granada
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
Church Notes: Rafael Cámara Expósito in 'Revista de Cultura Judía Raíces' (issue nº 70. Primavera 2007: 26-31) suggests that the present church may have been a sinagogue in the Middle Ages
Baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a round moulding and a scotia at the upper rim, a ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl. The wooden cover is octagonal, of the rim-buffet type, with doors opening at the front displaying the gilded and painted interior with a Baptism of Christ scene. Fernández Hervás ([2004?]) gives 1515 as the date of the foundation of this church. The building, however, appears to have served alternatively as a parish church and a sinagogue in earlier times. It is now the see of the botherhood of the 'Santa Capilla y Noble Cofradía de la Limpia Concepción de Nuestra Señora'. There is in the same c hurch a holy-water stoup built into a niche of the wall, and an interesting well-head in the yard.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
37.770995,
-3.793137
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
37° 46′ 15.58″ N,
3° 47′ 35.29″ W
UTM: 30S 430148 4180703
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Fernández Hervás, Entique, "La Santa Capilla de San Andrés: una institución de Jaén del siglo XVI", 18, Códice, [2004?]
