Miraflores

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 25901MIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: Modern?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Matriz / Parroquia La Virgen Milagrosa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the E end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: present church of 1930 built over the old "parroquia San Miguel de Miraflores"
Church Address: Ca. Lima 345, Miraflores 15074, Peru -- Tel.: +51 923 211 101
Site Location: Lima, Lima, Peru, South America
Directions to Site: Located 8-9 km S of central Lima, now a suburb. The church is located in the Parque Kennedy, off the Av. Diagonal, Miraflores city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lima
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the previous church here)
Font Notes:
The present baptismal font in this church consists of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal stem and a wider octagonal lower base, also octagonal; the whole font is decorated chiefly with tracery: seven sides of the basin are decorated with blank arcades of trefoiled arches, the eighth side bears a large dove with open wings, the symbol of the Holy Ghost; the underbowl has graded mouldings on it; the sides of the stem has a trefoiled arch and niche on each side; the lower base is moulded. The whole font is made of beige stone with marble inlays. The octagonal font cover is also made of stone, the same ar the font itself; it is a low pyramid with the same marble inlays as the font itseld; it has a Latin-dross finial, also of stone. The font probably dates to the same date as the present church, the 1930s, but may have replaced an earlier font of ther previous church on this site, the former "Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel de Miraflores".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mireya Cunningham for bringing this font to our attention

COORDINATES

UTM: 18L 279108 8659170
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): -12.121675, -77.029679
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 12° 7′ 18.03″ S, 77° 1′ 46.84″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: stone
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]