Santa Maria de Jesus / Santa María de Jesús

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

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symbol - chalice

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

Scene Description: several of them

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerd Eichmann, 1980

Image Source: digital image of a 26 January 1980 photograph by Gerd Eichmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_de_Jesus-12-Kirche-1980-gje.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the damage to the sides

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

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 December 2024)

view of font and cover

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

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 4 December 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 14 December 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25758JES
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial El Dulce Nombre De Jesús, de Santa María de Jesús
Church Patron Saints: Jesuschrist
Church Location: Ruta Palin, Santa María de Jesús, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Country Name: Guatemala
Location: Sacatepéquez
Directions to Site: Located off Ruta Palin, at the feet of Volcán de Agua, 10 km SSE of Antigua Guatemala
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis de Guatemala
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: "A huge ugly church" in archeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay's A glimpse at Guatemala, and some notes on the ancient monuments of Central America (London, UK: John Murray, 1899).
Baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with a broad flat moulding below the upper rim, and a band of symbols (crosses, chalices, etc.) all around; the undernowl has a flat ribbed pattern on it; the short pedestal base appears plain. The sides of the basin show considerable damage. The wooden cover is flat and round, a modern crude one.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 90°42′34″ W, -90.709444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 14°29′36″ N, 14.493333
UTM: 15P 746880 1603523

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]