Portomarin No. 1 / Portomarín
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail
view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum
view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - setail
view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - setail
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - setail
view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
view of church exterior - west portal
view of church exterior - west façade - detail
view of church exterior - north portal
view of church exterior - apse
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view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - nave - northwest corner
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07837POR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2006-06-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan [aka San Nicolás] / Igrexa de San Xoan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: 27170 Portomarín, Lugo, Spain -- Tel.: +34 982 54 50 65
Site Location: Lugo, Galicia, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the LU-612 and LU-633 confluence, 30 km SSW of Lugo capital
Additional Comments: relocated font / recycled font: the church and the town moved for the construction of a dam
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font probably of the date of the church itself, the early 13th century. On-site notes: the font is made of limestone; it consists of a tapering round tub slightly irregular in shape and plain except for a rope moulding around the lower rim and a roll moulding on the upper; it is raised on a cluster of eight short columns; damage to the upper rim side coincides with the position of one of the iron staples of the old cover; a flat wooden cover with metal reinforcement is probably 19th-century; the cover is locked and we could not gain access to the basin interior [NB: the church and part of the town itself were relocated stone by stone to a new site in the 20th century for the construction of the nearby dam] [cf. Index entry for Portomarin No. 2 for a very interesting holy-water stoup in the same church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 613200 4740390
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.8077, -7.6155
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 48′ 27.72″ N, 7° 36′ 55.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm
Basin Total Height: 54 cm
Height of Base: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI [NB: there may been a lower base for this font]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]