Montevideo
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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
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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
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 20387MON
Church/Chapel: Catedral-Basílica Metropolitana de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago
Church Patron Saints: The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary, St. Philip and St. James
Church Location: Ituzaingó 1373, Montevideo 11000, Uruguay -- Tel.: +598 2915 7018
Country Name: Uruguay
Location: Montevideo
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]
Date: ca. 1700-1724?
Century and Period: 18th century (early?),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of this church and font
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
-34.907,
-56.204111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
34° 54′ 25.2″ S,
56° 12′ 14.8″ W
UTM: 21H 572709 6136981
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Spanish
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the lower base side
Inscription Text: "CURA RECTOR / J.B. LAMAS"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]