Vilar de Donas No. 1

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Results: 17 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
symbol - cross - Cruz de la Orden de Santiago
symbol - shell - pilgrim shell - 4
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - north view
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - northwest end
view of church exterior - west end
view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Salvador_de_Vilar_de_Donas_(1105326563).jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel
view of church interior - nave - northeast corner
view of church interior - painting
view of church interior - painting - detail
view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: retable made of white granite
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Salvador_de_Vilar_das_Donas_retablo.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 10494VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador [Priorato de la Orden de Santiago]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the N-547, near Portos, 45 kmSW of Lugo capital, in the municipality of Palas de Rei/Rey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo
Historical Region: Comarca de Ulloa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, N side, just W of the chancel arch
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: Very interesting and complex 15th-century mural paintings in the main chapel, as well as a stone altar front
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font at this priory church is made of granite and consists of a hemispherical basin raised on a short octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal-to-square lower base; there is a Latin crosses carved on the side of the granite basin, its shape most likely representing the Cross of the Order of Santiago, of which this church was a priory; there is a round moulding at either end of the stem of the base, four of the sides of the stem decorated with pilgrimage shells. The font has a wooden cover, flat and plain, with lock on the front side; it appears modern. The font is located in the northeast corner of the nave, just west of the chancel arch. Illustrated in Yzquierdo Perrín (2003). The church itself is said to be late-12th and early-13th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.892567, -7.810764
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53' 33.24 N, 7° 48' 38.75" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
Yzquierdo Perrín, Ramón, Arquitectura románica en Lugo, [Pontevedra?]: Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza", 1983
Yzquierdo Perrín, Ramón, Los caminos a Compostela: el arte de la pregrinación, Madrid: Encuentro, 2003