Villanueva de Oscos No. 1

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the central drain and the damage around it

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view of church exterior in context - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Monasterio de Santa María de Villanueva de Oscos [...] Fachada del monasterio."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2008 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_de_Santa_María_de_Villanueva_de_Oscos_(2796375629).jpg] [accessed 27 September 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Monasterio de Santa María de Villanueva de Oscos [...] Cabecera de la iglesia."

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view of church interior - baptistery

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Image Source: Fuenteseca Alvarez and González Gutiérrez (1998)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10881VIL

Church/Chapel: Monasterio de Santa María de Villanueva

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Poblado Villanueva de Oscos, 23A, 33777 Villanueva de Oscos, Asturias, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the AS-13, 25 km S of Ribadeo, about 70 km NE of Lugo capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Oviedo

Historical Region: Oviedo prov.

Font Location in Church: In the sacristy [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?

Cognate Fonts: The disappeared font from Camoca?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Alicia Fuenteseca Alvarez and Leopoldo González Gutiérrez for bringing this font to our attention and for the information provided. We are also grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: monastery founded 1137

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Fuenteseca Alvarez and González Gutiérrez (1998) as a baptismal font now [i.e., 1998] stored in the sacristy of the church, to the left of the door; the base broke in two during the last retoration of the church. Originally, informs the same source, the chalice-shaped font had been located to the left of the west entrance; it is made of limestone, the hemispherical basin decorated with a round moulding at the upper rim and around the middle of the basin; there is a short stem and a base of about the same height, both plain; the wooden font cover is furnished with a metal lock. This source dates the font to the 16th century. [cf. BSI entry for Villanueva de Oscos No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.311829, -6.985824

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 18′ 43″ N, 6° 60′ 1″ W

UTM: 29T 663342 4797414

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Basin Depth: 28 cm* [max.]

Basin Total Height: 37 cm*

Height of Base: 62 cm [calculated: 33 cm* + 29* cm]

Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Fuenteseca Alvarez and González Gutiérrez (1998: 1385)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Fuenteseca Alvarez, Alicia, "Presencia de pilas bautismales en iglesias cistercienses asturianas", Actas : II Congreso Internacional sobre el Císter en Galicia y Portugal, Ourense: [The Congress], 1998