San Andres nr. Valverde No. 2
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18412AND
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden stoup
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia [antigua Ermita] de San Andrés
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: C/ Iglesia de San Andrés, 2, 38915 El Hierro, Canarias -- Tel.: +34 922 551 451
Site Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: San Andrés is a hamlet in the municipality of Valverde, on the island of El Hierro
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de San Cristóbal de La Laguna [aka Diócesis de Tenerife]
Additional Comments: disappeared stoup? / disused stoup? trough in a pigsty -- MUST USE
Font Notes:
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Avila (2012) notes the inventory of 1719 lists a "pila de agua bendita de madera" [wooden holy-water stoup] in this church/chapel, and it probably survived in use well into the 20th century, when it was replaced by a gift stoup from Valverde; the wooden stoup was discarded and ended as a trough in a nearby pigsty.
COORDINATES
UTM: 28R 212982 3079141
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Avila, Ana, Isla de El Hierro: Patrimonio artístico religioso, Madrid: Ediciones del Umbral, 2012, p. 384 and fn