Altea

INFORMATION

Font ID: 25992ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1900
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th - 20th century, Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora del Consuelo / Església de Santa Maria del Consol d'Altea / Església de la Mare de Déu del Consol
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the Capilla de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original church of 1607; became parochial 1640; modified 1850s; re-built 1901-1910; restored 1980-1989
Church Address: Plaza Iglesia, 2, 03590 Altea, Alicante, Spain -- Tel.: +34 965 84 01 17
Site Location: Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the coastal road N-332, E of Hwy AP-7, between Calpe (NE) and Benidorm (SW), about 50 km NE of Alicante city centre
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the one from the 1607 church) -- price of a font in 1900 ***IMAGES RECEIVED -- TO BE LOADED AND ENTERED IN IMAGE SUBFORM*** GET CHURCH PICS FROM https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Església_de_la_Mare_de_Déu_del_Consol,_Altea
Font Notes:
The present font in this church is modern, of ca.1900 [cf. infra]. We have no information on the font of the early-17h century church here.
A document in the church archives headed "COPIA LITERAL DE LAS "ANOTACIONES" DEL CURA D. JUAN BAUTISTA CREMADES PEIRÓ, EN UN CUADERNO MANUSCRITO QUE SE CONSERVA EN EL ARCHIVO PARROQUIAL DE ALTEA (1900-1924. La transcripción es obra de Luís Fuster Orts. IGLESIA PARROQUIAL DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL CONSUELO DE LA VILLA DE ALTEA" [https://www.alteamipueblo.es/grandes/documentos/iglesia-parroquial.pdf] [accessed 29 November 2025] records the details of the acquisition and collocation of the present baptismal font in the year 1900, including the price paid for the font and the name of the donor: "También fue adquirida una preciosa pila bautismal donada por la bienhechora Dª Catalina Thous Carrera, cuya pila fue colocada en el altar de San Juan Bta. [...] la pila bautismal 603 p[ese]tas".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andy Eccles for bringing this site to our attention