Sietecoros / Setecoros

INFORMATION

FontID: 09182SIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo de Pontevedra / Lapidario de Santo Domingo, Pontevedra
Church/Chapel: [originally from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Sietecoros/Setecoros is located in the municipality of Valga [the Museo is located in the Avda. Montero Rios, Pontevedra capital]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Castillo López (1987 c1972: 574 and pl. 80) as an interesting medieval baptismal font collected by himself from the old parish church of San Salvador in Sietecoros (Setecoros) and now [ca. 1972] in the custody of the lapidary museum created inside the ruins of the old church of Santo Domingo in Pontevedra capital. The font appears to have a bucket-shaped basin decorated with some motif on the sides. The shape of the upper rim appears to suggest that there was a cover installed on it at some point in the past. [NB: the view of this font that shows the Museum floor, as well as the image of the same in the Munumentalia web site, shows also other fonts in this Museum, one of them probably originally from Sobran, also in Pontevedra province]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Castillo López, Angel, Inventario de la riqueza monumental y artística de Galicia, [La Coruña]: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 1987 (c1972)