Ribadavia No. 1
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
Results: 18 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: large ones with smaller ones inside
design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: all around below the rim, except where the original stone was replaced by a plain insert -- notice the drilled hole above one of the ribs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - patterns - ribbed - nested ribs
Scene Description: very deeply carved
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa de San Domingos (XIII-XIV). Ribadavia"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez), 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2011 by Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_San_Domingos_(XIII-XIV)._Ribadavia_-_3.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez), 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2011 by Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_San_Domingos_(XIII-XIV)._Ribadavia_-_Portal-2.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: the patron saint of the church?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez), 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2011 by Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_San_Domingos_(XIII-XIV)._Ribadavia-_Galiza-3.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez), 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2011 by Lmbuga (Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_San_Domingos_(XIII-XIV)._Ribadavia-_Galiza-4.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Capiteis da portada (lado dereito) na fachada occidental da igrexa de San Domingos de Ribadavia."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lameiro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2017 by Lameiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ribadavia_01-12b,_fachada_oeste.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: the apse chapel now serving as baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
view of church interior - northwest end
Scene Description: the original plinth of the medieval font is still located in this area, beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
view of font - plinth
Scene Description: the original plinth of the baptismal font is still in situ beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 December 2019)
view of font in context
Scene Description: in the apsidal chapel, not its original location -- notice the small square plinth that replaces the original one that is still in situ
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Jume 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05493RIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Convento / Iglesia Monacal de Santo Domingo / Igrexa de San Domingos
Church Patron Saints: St. Dominic [aka Dominic of Guzmán, Domingo de Guzmán]
Church Location: Calle Celso Emilio Ferreiro, 2, 32400 Ribadavia, Orense, Spain -- Tel.: +34 988 47 08 57
Country Name: Spain
Location: Orense / Ourense, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the OU-801, E of the N-120, on the W bank of the Avia river, about 25 km WSW of Orense capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Orense
Historical Region: Comarca del Ribeiro
Font Location in Church: In the capilla absidal del Evangelio (apse chapel, north side)
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Manso Porto (1993: t.1, p. 290, II, pl. 16): hemispherical basin mounted on a short round shaft located in an apse chapel; the upper rim of the basin has a band of small ball motif all around; the sides of the basin and underbowl have large stylised ribbed pattern. Some damage is apparent on the upper rim, where there are patches of plain stone inserted, whereas the original rim had ball motif all around. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.285929, -8.145139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 17′ 9.34″ N, 8° 8′ 42.5″ W
UTM: 29T 570480 4681877
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
REFERENCES
Manso Porto, Carmen, Arte gótico en Galicia: los Dominicos, La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa, 1993