Sietecoros / Setecoros

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09182SIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Museum: Museo de Pontevedra / Lapidario de Santo Domingo, Pontevedra, [unknown]
Church / Chapel Name: Antigua Iglesia de Santo Domingo, Pontevedra [in ruins; now a museum]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador
Church Notes: 14thC Dominican Gothic convent; now in ruins and used as museum
Church Address: Avenida Montero Rios, 1, 36002 Pontevedra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 986 80 41 00
Site Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Sietecoros/Setecoros is located in the municipality of Valga [the Museo is located in the Avda. Montero Rios, Pontevedra capital]
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 529039 4697714
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.431198, -8.646964
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 25′ 52.31″ N, 8° 38′ 49.07″ W

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), p. 574 and pl. 80