Aguas Santas nr. Allariz / Aguasantas / Santa Marina de Augas Santas / Santa Mariña de Aguas Santas
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 June 1999 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 June 1999 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02252AGU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Santa Mariña de Aguas Santas / Santa Mariña de Augas Santas
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Aguas Santas, 32660 Allariz, Orense, Galicia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Orense / Ourense, Galicia
Directions to Site: Santa Maria de Santas Aguas is off the OU-0101, the road from Orense to Allariz, 7 km from Allariz, just passed Taboadela, 20 km from Orense capital.
Font Location in Church: In an enclosure, to the left of the entrance at the western end.
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original church late-12th and 13thC, dependant of the Augustianian monastery of San Salvador de Celanova
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Chamoso Lamas (1973, pl. 113). On-site notes: Romanesque baptismal font of granite, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin with only a flat moulding all around its middle as decoration, raised on a short stem base. No font cover present, but the upper rim has a metal staple (?) that was probably part of the anchoring of an earlier cover. The font is situated in an enclosure to the left of the entrance.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 14' 26.9" N, 7º 47' 11.9" W
UTM: 29T 600238 4677429
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 94 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 118 cm
Basin Depth: 50 cm
Basin Total Height: 68 cm
Height of Base: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
REFERENCES
Chamoso Lamas, Manuel, Galice romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1973