Antigua Guatemala No. 1 / Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala

Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

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design element - motifs - foliage

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - motifs - moulding

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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design element - motifs - moulding

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cathedral de Santiago, La Antigua Guatemala, Antigua (Guatemala)" -- showing its restored façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rambling Traveler, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2009 by Rambling Traveler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CathedralDeSantiago.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Antigua Guatemala c. 1840. Central Plaza with volcanoes in the distance." -- at the time the twin bell towers were still standing

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood's Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (1854, p. 162) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate_33-_ANTIGUA_GUATIMALA.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2024]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "La catedral de Antigua Guatemala, departamento de Sacatepéquez, Guatemala."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Burchell, 2022

Image Source: edited detail of a 1 May 2022 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Antigua_Guatemala_24.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2024]

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view of font

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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view of font in context

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 December 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: 25756GUA
Church/Chapel: Parroquia de San José, Catedral de Antigua Guatemala
Church Patron Saints: St. Joseph
Church Location: 5a Calle Oriente, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Country Name: Guatemala
Location: Sacatepéquez
Directions to Site: Located off (W) RN-10, E of road 14, about 20 km ESE of Guatemala capital. The church is located between 5a Calle Oriente, 3a and 4a Avenida Norte
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis de Guatemala
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th - 19th century (?), Neo-Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: a cathedral started in 1545 on earlier ruins; several earthquakes damaged it through the centuries; re-inaugurated in 1680; church promoted to cathedral in 1743;
The present baptismal font in this church is made of stone, and it appears relatively modern, of a design very common in Europe between the 17th and the 19th century: a shallow basin with moulded sides, raised on a slender pedestal base with foliage decoration, and an octagonal moulded lower base, the latter suggesting a date in the later range mentioned above. [NB: we have no informationon any of the previous fonts(?) of the 16th-century church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 14.560323, -90.73883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 14° 33′ 37.16″ N, 90° 44′ 19.79″ W
UTM: 15P 743638 1610906

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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