Llerena
Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 April 2023)
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design element - motifs - egg-shaped spheres
Scene Description: a band of
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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design element - motifs - leaf or plant
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Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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human figure
Scene Description: a child? / putto?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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human figure - bust - 2
Scene Description: facing a leaf or plant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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human figure - standing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
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view of church exterior - north portal
![Source caption: "Portada de Nuestra Señora de la Granada [...] La portada que se abre a la Plaza Mayor es de estilo barroco y se atribuye al arquitecto local José de Hermosilla. Sobre el frontón aparecen tres blasones: el de Llerena, el Papal y el del Reino de Castilla."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230418002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada de Nuestra Señora de la Granada [...] La portada que se abre a la Plaza Mayor es de estilo barroco y se atribuye al arquitecto local José de Hermosilla. Sobre el frontón aparecen tres blasones: el de Llerena, el Papal y el del Reino de Castilla."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ángel M. Felicísimo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2015 by Ángel M. Felicísimo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portada_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Granada_(18825829789).jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 18 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Our Lady of Granada, Llerena Extremadura"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kolforn, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 July 2016 by Kolforn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady_of_Granada,_Llerena_Extremadura._22_July_2016.JPG?uselang=es] [accessed 18 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - tower - portal
![Source caption: "Portada de Nuestra Señora de la Granada [...] La iglesia parroquial de Llerena (Badajoz) es más conocida por su gran torre mudéjar pero esta Puerta del Perdón, no visible desde la Plaza Mayor, es de lo poco que queda original del siglo XIV. Es de estilo gótico con arquivoltas apuntadas, de las cuales una está labrada con leones."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230418003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada de Nuestra Señora de la Granada [...] La iglesia parroquial de Llerena (Badajoz) es más conocida por su gran torre mudéjar pero esta Puerta del Perdón, no visible desde la Plaza Mayor, es de lo poco que queda original del siglo XIV. Es de estilo gótico con arquivoltas apuntadas, de las cuales una está labrada con leones."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ángel M. Felicísimo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2015 by Ángel M. Felicísimo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portada_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Granada_(18823521488).jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 18 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Altar mayor de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Granada (Llerena) [...] Interior del templo con retablo mayor ensamblado en 1949."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230418004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Altar mayor de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Granada (Llerena) [...] Interior del templo con retablo mayor ensamblado en 1949."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jl FilpoC, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2019 by Jl FilpoC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altar_mayor_de_la_Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Granada_(Llerena).jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 18 April 2023]
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view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia Mayor de Nuestra Señora de la Granada. Imagen con orígenes en el siglo XIII, vinculada a la Orden de Santiago."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jl FilpoC, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2019 by Jl FilpoC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Granada_(Llerena).jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 18 April 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marian Torrens, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph April 2023 by Marian Torrens
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 April 2023)
INFORMATION
FontID: 24690LLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Mayor de Nuestra Señora de la Granada / Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Granada y Santiago Apostol
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. James
Church Location: Pl. de España, 1, 06900 Llerena, Badajoz, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Badajoz, Extremadura
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the N-422, EX-103 and EX-200, 18-20 km WSW of Berlanga, about 30 km SE of Zafra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 18th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Marian Torrens for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: 14thC gótico mudéjar church; modified 18thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of extremely crude decoration; it consists of a roughly hemispheric basin with a crenellated basin below geometric motifs around the upper rim; the sides and underbowl have human bodies, busts and heads, as well as foliage motifs, crudely rendered and garishly painted; more bodies on the stem [are they putti?]; on a round-to-square lower base decorated with large leaves set at 90-degree angles.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.237539, -6.015036
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 14′ 15.14″ N, 6° 0′ 54.13″ W
UTM: 29S 791252 4236385
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round