Tordesillas

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Scene Description: Patio de las Claras, within the monastery; in the right-hand corner, the west end of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2004 by José-Manuel Benito [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atrio_de_las_Claras.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18686TOR
Church/Chapel: Real Monasterio de Santa Clara
Church Patron Saints: St. Claire of Assissi
Church Location: 47100 Tordesillas, Valladolid, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located 30 km SW of Valladolid capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valladolid [formerly in the D. of Palencia]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco José García Gómez for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: Gothic church was originally a mudéjar palace built on the site of an earlier one; became a female monastery in 1363
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of a plain roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round to square pedestal base; the font is very weathered and now exposed to the elements in the monastery garden; there is damage at the upper rim consistent with the presence of an old cover hardware.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 333032 4596292
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]