Hervas No. 1 / Hervás

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph May 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 May 2023)

design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph May 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 May 2023)

inscription

Scene Description: [cf, FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph May 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 May 2023)

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Image Source: digital photograph May 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 May 2023)

INFORMATION

FontID: 24763HER

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista [former Trinitarian monastery]

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Plaza Convento 8, 10700 Hervás, Cáceres, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cáceres, Extremadura

Directions to Site: Located off the A66 [aka Autovía Ruta de la Plata], 113 km of Cáceres capital, 98 km of Salamanca.

Historical Region: Alfoz de Béjar

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 17th century(mid?),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: church of a former mid-17thC Trinitarian convent

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font made of granite, and probably dated to the building of this Trinitarian monastery church in 1664; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with roll moulding at the upper rim and a ribbed pattern around the sides and underbowl, both very pronunced; on a short round pedestal base that has an inscription all around. Round and flat wooden cover with a metal lock.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 256337 4462098

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: around the short pedestal base

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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