Portomarin No. 2 / Portomarín

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2006 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - palmette

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design element - motifs - scallop

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design element - motifs - vine

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information

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information

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view of base

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view of basin

Scene Description: note the exit hole of the drain

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - interior - drain

Scene Description: note the side drain

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view of church interior - looking east

view of church interior - nave - northwest corner

view of stoup - east side

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view of stoup - north side

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view of stoup - south side

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view of stoup - southeast side

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view of stoup in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07838POR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan [aka San Nicolás] / Igrexa de San Xoan

Church Patron Saints: St. John

Church Location: 27170 Portomarín, Lugo, Spain -- Tel.: +34 982 54 50 65

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lugo, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located off the LU-612 and LU-633 confluence, 30 km SSW of Lugo capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the door

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Cylindrical mounted holy-water stoup made of granite and dated probably of the late 12th or early 13th century. On-site notes: the basin is ornamented with high-relief motifs: vine, palmette, ball, etc., all around the basin sides, the lower part of the underbowl decorated with scallop motif; the stem of the base is a tall cluster on four columns; the lower base, probably part of this same block, is shaped like a quadrangular prism. Although there is some cement between the basin and the stem now it is possible that the whole stoup may have been originally one piece [cf. Index entry for Portomarin No. 1 for the baptismal font in the same church -- the church and part of the town were relocated stone by stone to the present site in the 20th century during the construction of the dam which flooded the old site]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.8077, -7.6155

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48′ 27.72″ N, 7° 36′ 55.8″ W

UTM: 30T 613200 4740390

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: exit hole on the side of the basin

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 42-44 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 58 cm

Basin Depth: 21-23 cm

Basin Total Height: 36 cm

Height of Base: 56 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 114 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI