Valverde on El Hierro
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Mataparda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Concepcionvalverde2009.JPG] [accessed 5 April 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18406VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Matriz de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción en Valverde, El Hierro
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: the present church is a Baroque re-building of the 18th century
Church Address: C. Pérez Galdós, 2, 38900 Villa de Valverde, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain -- Tel.: +34 922 55 01 27
Site Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Valverde is located off the HI-1, in the NE area of the island of El Hierro, in the Canary Islands
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de San Cristóbal de La Laguna [aka Diócesis de Tenerife]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Avila (2012) notes and illustrates the present font and holy-water stoups, all of them modern, and outside the scope of this Index. Avila (ibid.) further notes that the original church here dates from the early 15th century the time of conquest and baptism of the aboriginals [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 28R 212829 3079262
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 27.807269, -17.914814
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 27° 48′ 26.17″ N, 17° 54′ 53.33″ W
REFERENCES
- Avila, Ana, Isla de El Hierro: Patrimonio artístico religioso, Madrid: Ediciones del Umbral, 2012, p. 91, 125, 242-246