Villafranca del Bierzo no. 5

Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

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Scene Description: plaque outside the church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: the window opens into the chancel on the north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: showing part of the excavations that revealed the earlier church here; this part appears to have been an old reservoir inside the church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: showing the font build into the base of the north wall; wooden west gallery at the far back

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of font - southeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: the north doorway is visible in the background

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

view of font in context - southeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2016 by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 June 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 14268VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan [aka Iglesia Parroquial de San Fiz de Viso]
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Ctra. Corullón, 6A, 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
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez for her photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original monastery 7thC; present church originally of the Hospitallers, late-12th or early-13thC
The present font in this church is an old one, perhaps the original of the 12th-13th century church here; it consists of a roughly-hemispherical plain basin of regular proportions raised on a base that appears to be a mix of an upper circular stone and a lower one made of cemented rubble, all of it nuilt into the base of the North wall of the nave. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.602003, -6.819489
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 36′ 7.21″ N, 6° 49′ 10.16″ W
UTM: 29T 678876 4718924

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round