Vilar de Donas No. 1

Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

Results: 17 records

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 April 2015)

symbol - cross - Cruz de la Orden de Santiago

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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symbol - shell - pilgrim shell - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alma, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2007 by Alma [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ábsidas_Vilar_de_Donas_ed.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lansbricae, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2007 by Lansbricae (Luis Leclere) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vilar_de_Donas_xeral.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 April 2015)

view of church exterior - northwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - west end

Scene Description: with the holy-water stoup to the right [north] of the door

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/1103315899/in/photostream/] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - northeast corner

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 April 2015)

view of church interior - painting

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 April 2015)

view of church interior - painting - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davidh820, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2012 by Davidh820 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detalle_de_las_pinturas_-_Iglesia_de_San_Salvador,_Vilar_de_Donas.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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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]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the east end, north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 April 2015)

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yzquierdo Perrin, 1983

Image Source: Yzquierdo Perrin (1983)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 10494VIL
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
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