Villafranca del Bierzo No. 3

Results: 13 records

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

LB01: design element - patterns - fluted

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the bottom of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the groove probably made for the cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2017 by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_colegiata_Villafranca_del_Bierzo_03.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2017 by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_colegiata_Villafranca_del_Bierzo_04.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2019]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2005 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 10902VIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Colegiata de Santa María del Cluniaco [aka Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [since late-19thC The Assumption of St. Mary]

Church Location: plaza de don Pio, 24500 Villafranca del Bierzo, León, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: León, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A6/NVI, 20-25 km WNW of Ponferrada

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Astorga

Historical Region: El Bierzo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a baptismal chapel

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Renaissance

Church Notes: 12thC Benedictine monastery; re-cuilt as collegiate church 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view

On-site notes: baptismal font in the collegiate church of St. Mary, originally built as a cathedral church; the font, of a common design in the period, probably between the 17th and 18th centuries, consists of a hemispherical basin with flat upper moulding and a regular ribbed motif below, mounted on a fluted pedestal base with round mouldings at both ends.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.609503, -6.809394

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 36′ 34.21″ N, 6° 48′ 33.82″ W

UTM: 29T 679683 4719778

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the round drain hole is inscribed in a square cuta square

Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 87 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 102 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Height of Base: 54 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm

Notes on Measurements: on-ste