San Juan La Laguna

Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 December 2024)

Results: 7 records

animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - couchant

Scene Description: on the stem of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - motifs - foliage or plant

Scene Description: on the stem: seen here to the left of the couchant animal: palm bunch?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: in the scotia below the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia Católica de San Juan La Laguna"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guillaume B,

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Guillaume B [https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g1065829-d13921408-Reviews-Iglesia_Catolica_de_San_Juan_La_Laguna-San_Juan_la_Laguna_Lake_Atitlan_Solola_D.html] [accessed 13 December 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 23 November 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 December 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25755LAG
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan la Laguna
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Calle Chi Nima Ya' / 4a Avenida, San Juan la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala
Country Name: Guatemala
Location: Sololá
Directions to Site: Located off road SOL-4, S of the CA1, 1-2 km SW of San Pedro la Laguna, on the SW shore of lake Atitlán, 20-30 km SE of Quetzaltenango
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Sololá Chimaltenango
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, NW side
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th - 18th century (?),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: church inventory of 1787 reported three altars in it; building destroyed by earthquake 2 April 1902; provisional church of adobe built 1969-1970; demolished 2007; re-built 2007-2015
Baptismal font of stone [sandstone?] consisting of a roughly hermispherical basin raised on a short round stem and a circular lower base; the basin has a moulding patterned in deeply carved geometrical scallops all around; in the groove below runs a rope moulding, while very a pattern of diagonal broad ribs cover the rest of the basin sides; the short stem has a number of motifs, including a couchant quadruped and a palm bunch; the same scalloped pattern of the upper basin side is replicated all around the lower base. The cover is a low dome decorated with grape bunches, and a statue of St John the Baptist as finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 14.7, -91.283333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 14° 42′ 0″ N, 91° 17′ 0″ W
UTM: 15P 684834 1625848

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]