Betanzos

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Image and Permission received (email of 8 February 2005)
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled - inside a pointed arch
BU01: design element - motifs
INFORMATION
FontID: 10641BET
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María de Azogue
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located on the A6-E70, 15 km ESE of La Coruña
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of a round tapring basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the basin is large, the sides decorated with a blind arcade of very large trefoil windows inside pointed arches; the underbowl is decorated with a band of motif [it looks like a simple braid or intersecting wavy lines]. The basin has been heavily repaired/reconstructed under the auspices of the current [2005] priest of the parish of Santiago, in the city of La Coruña, who also sponsored the reconstruction of the Romanesque font there [cf. Index entry for Coruña No. 2]. The pedestal base is made of granite and appears modern. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the information on, and photograph of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, [modern base is granite]
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round