Montevideo
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2016 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior in context - west façade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2008 by Thomoesch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montevideokathedrale.JPG] [accessed 2 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 January 2016 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20387MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1700-1724?
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century (early?)
Church / Chapel Name: Catedral-Basílica Metropolitana de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary, St. Philip and St. James
Church Notes: first wooden church building from the time of Philip V of Spain (r. 1700-1724), so probably early 18thC; brick building of 1740; collapsed 1788; new church 1804; became cathedral 1897
Church Address: Ituzaingó 1373, Montevideo 11000, Uruguay -- Tel.: +598 2915 7018
Site Location: Montevideo, Uruguay, South America
Directions to Site: Located in the Ciudad Vieja, opposite the Plaza Constitución [aka Plaza Matriz]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Montevideo [formerly Diócesis de Buenos Aires]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original early-18thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in the cathedral is modern; it consists of a round shallow basin decorated with a lip moulding, and conceve ribbing on the underbowl; square pedestal base with rolls at top and bottom; lower base has inscription "CURA RECTOR J.B. LAMAS" identyfying the donor (?) as José Benito Lamas Regueira (1787-1857) a Franciscan who served as parish priest here before the church became a cathedral. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 21H 572709 6136981
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): -34.907, -56.204111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 34° 54′ 25.2″ S, 56° 12′ 14.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Spanish
Inscription Location: on the lower base side
Inscription Text: "CURA RECTOR / J.B. LAMAS"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]