Bogajo

An article of 9 June 2006 in the ABC newspaper [www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-09-06-2006/abc/Cultura/los-principes-inauguran-en-ciudad-rodrigo-la-ultima-muestra-de-las-edades-del-hombre_1421940769989.html] [accessed 1 July 2019] on the Las Edades del Hombre exhibition in the cathedral at Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, notes that one of the objects displayed was "una gran pila bautismal berroqueña del siglo XVI, procedente de la parroquia de Bogajo (Salamanca)". An entry in Bogajo Manolo / Salamanca blog [http://bogajo-en-salamanca.blogspot.com/2013/05/interior-de-la-iglesia-de-bogajo-nuevas.html] [accessed 1 July 2019] gives a referred [no source] description: "pieza de taza monolítica, esculpida en granito, con una moldura en el reborde y gallones que suman cabezas aladas de angelitos; dicha taza apea sobre un pie cilíndrico y con pequeñas molduras" "Estilo: renacentista". The font, made of granite, consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with ribbed pattern and cherubs on the sides and underbowl below a flat moulding; there are two metal staples at opposite ends of the upper rim, but no cover present; raised on a moulded pedestal base.