Pexegueiro / Persicario / Persegueiro / Persigarium / Pesegueiro

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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animal - mammal - quadruped - horse?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row of, all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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human figure - male - atlante?

Scene Description: the figure appears to hold on to the upper and lower mouldings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/438737729/in/photostream/] [accessed 8 August 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: leads into the east end of the nave, close to the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/437901664/in/photostream/] [accessed 8 August 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/437903351] [accessed 8 August 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: showing the west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/438738889/in/photostream/] [accessed 8 August 2016]

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Scene Description: some suggest it may be a representation of Daniel and the lions but the identification may be rather contrived

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2015 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02748PEX

Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de San Miguel de Pexegueiro [former church of a 10thC Benedictine monastery]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Pexegueiro, 36711, Pontevedra, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Pontevedra, Galicia

Directions to Site: The "parroquia" of San Miguel de Pexegueiro is a village of ca. 400 inhabitants located in the place known as Mosteiro, in the municipality of Tui, 6 km from Tui, 50 km from Pontevedra capital, on the northern banks of the rio Miño.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Tui-Vigo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N wall, near a long bench

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carlos Sastre and to Augusto Guedes de Castro for their photographs and information on this font

Church Notes: Carlos Sastre [personal letter in BSI files] mentions a "Cristo articulado" [=articulated Christ] and compares the font decoration to that of the church's tympanum over the western entrance, in which can be found both the hemispheres and the same type of animal carving. Sastre lso questions whether or not the font figures might represent Daniel and the lions (ibid.)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Galicia (2014- ), with measurements, identifying the figures as a lion, an atalante and a horse. Described and ilustrated in Romanico Digital [www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-69952.aspx] [accessed 9 August 2016] after the Enciclopedia entry. Noted and illustrated in Carlos Prieto [http://lamagiadelaspiedras.blogspot.ca/2014/10/pila-bautismal-de-san-miguel-de.html] [accessed 9 August 2016], also after the entry in the Enciclopedia. The tub-shaped granite font has a squat, narrower base which appears to form a single block with the basin; the upper part of the basin has a row of hemispheres just below the rim, probably 18-24; under it, a plain horizontal band; another such, parallel to this right at the bottom of the basin; three crudely carved figures adorn the granite surface between the bands: in the centre, a figure (male?) with arms raised (orant?), both his hands and his feet carved over the corresponding band, upper and lower; to his right, facing away from him, a quadruped (lion?); to his left, facing him, another quadruped, certainly not a lion, its hooves showing three "fingers". A drain -with a modern tap- has been effected in the lower side of the basin, under the lion's belly. The whole has been mounted, probably quite recently, on a modern plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 2' 30.36'', 8º 41' 52.47''

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: not clear whether or not this is the only drain in the font; the actual tap located on the side of the basin is modern

Diameter (includes rim): 118 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 94 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del Románico en Galicia (Pontevedra, vol. 2: 924-925)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Round, flat and plain, with lock (?) on the side

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia gallega, Gijón: Silverio Cañada, 1974

Bango Torviso, Isidro G., Arquitectura románica en Pontevedra, La Coruña: [unknown], 1979

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Galicia, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2014-