Caspe / Casp
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ecelan, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2006 by Ecelan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspe_-_Colegiata_de_Sta_Mar%C3%ADa_la_Mayor_-_Vista02.jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 18 July 2010]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © eapsf, 2009
Image Source: the modern font digital photograph taken November 2009 by eapsf [www.trivago.es/caspe-351791/catedraliglesiamonasterio/colegiata-de-santa-maria-1302176/foto-i5717683] [accessed 18 July 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jose Roca, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2010 by Jose Roca [www.panoramio.com/photo/44975670] [accessed 18 July 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18109CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor, Caspe
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church re-built from the old mosque in the ciry; consecrated in 1169
Church Address: Plaza del Compromiso, s/n, 50700 Caspe, Spain
Site Location: Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-211 and A-221, 100 km SE of Zaragoza capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Zaragoza
Additional Comments: disappeared? / destroyed font?
Font Notes:
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The present font is noted and illustrated in Borras, Siurana & Thomson (2012): baptismal font of the 1940s, possibly the work of Amadeo Paltor; the present dome-shaped cover is the work of the Albareda Hnos. Workshop. This same source reports that the new replaced an earlier one destroyed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War; the destroyed font may have been a neo-Gothic piece of ca. 1880. [NB: the church fabric goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the font of that period].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 748634 4568905
REFERENCES
- Borrás Gualis, Gonzalo M., La Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de Caspe: arquitectura y arte mueble, Zaragoza: Centro de Estudios Comarcales del Bajo Aragón-Caspe: Institucion Fernando el Catolico, 2012, p, [292], 295-296