Roma No. 29

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the old entrance, through the Temple of Romulus, now disused

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2005 by Anthony Majanlahti [www.flickr.com/photos/93226994@N00/14690301] [accessed 23 April 2015]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the church entranceway now in use; it was opened in the late-1940s on Via dei Fori Imperiali

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - apse

Scene Description: the mosaics depicting Christ's Parousia

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2015 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19836ROM

Church/Chapel: Basilica Santi Cosma e Damiano / Titulus Ss. Cosmae et Damiani

Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian

Church Location: Via dei Fori Imperiali, 1, 00186 Roma, Italy -- Tel.: +39 06 0608

Country Name: Italy

Location: Rome, Lazio

Directions to Site: Located in the Roman Forum of Vespasian

Century and Period: , Medieval

Church Notes: former imperial building became church in 527; major restoration 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font is rather mothern; it consists of a round basin decorated with a pronounced lip-moulding and a scotia, with ribbed or gadrooned pattern on the underbowl, raised on a round moulded pedestal base; domed metal cover also ribbed, with orb-and-cross finial; this font is located in an alcove off the nave, behind a locked metal railing. [NB: we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.892063, 12.487431

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 53′ 31.43″ N, 12° 29′ 14.75″ E

UTM: 33T 291556 4640845