Eire No. 2 / San Miguel de Eire / San Miguel de Eiré

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design element - architectural - building - fortress - crenellated - 3

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis? anagram?

Scene Description: one of them is visible here, to the left of the shell

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis? anagram?

Scene Description: the second of two

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: note the damage to the rim area just above the upper moulding -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - 2

Scene Description: seen here at the extreme left and right of the image

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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symbol - shell - pilgrim shell

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2016 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May o 2018 by Angel M. Felicísimo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Miguel_de_Eiré_(27191502527).jpg] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - archivolt - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Archivolte des Nordportals mit Röllchen- und Zahnschnittfries und dem Relief eines Lammes".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eiré_San_Miguel_411.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eiré_San_Miguel_410.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2065935379/] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2066733550/] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Está en O Mosteiro, en el concejo de Pantón, Lugo. Se construyó a finales del siglo XII, probablemente sobre otro edificio prerrománico del cual quedan algunos vestigios. Destaca la posición de la torre, muy poco habitual, entre la nave y el ábside."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May o 2018 by Angel M. Felicísimo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Miguel_de_Eiré_(41161328595).jpg] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/2065940631] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2065935917/] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2066734216/] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church interior - window

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fiestra prerrománica no interior da igrexa de San Miguel de Eiré, Eiré, Pantón"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/2065936217] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of church interior - window

Scene Description: pre-Romanesque window inside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2007 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 2013 taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 6 January 2014)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2007 by Jose Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2066736066/] [accessed 11 May 2019]

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view of font and stoup in context

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2007 by Mikel Unanue

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14436EIR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Miguel de Eire [form. Benedictine monastery]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Rúa Ourense, 72, 27438 O Mosteiro, Lugo, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lugo, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the LU-P-4102, N of the N-120, 2 km NW of Ferreira de Pantón, in its municipality, 10 km W of Monforte de Lemos, 25 km NE of Orense capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, under the gallery, by the entrance

Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, Juan Ramon Ugarte and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Diez Tejon (2008). Described and illustrated by Carmen Baena [www.arquivoltas.com/11-Galicia/01-Eire.htm] [accessed 19 June 2009]. Baptismal font in the traditional design of a large hemispherical basin raised on a squat round-to-square base. The web site of the Patrimonio Artístico de la Diputación de Lugo [www.diputacionlugo.org/ayuntamiento/panton.patrimonio.htm] dates the baptismal font to the 17th century. The font is made of granite, as many in Galicia are, and has a broad rope moulding around the upper sides, and a less prominet one around the lower sides; there is evidence of damage to the upper rim, consistent with the removal of metal staples from the old cover; below the upper moulding is a band of symbols that include [L->R]: a Maltese cross, a fleur-de-lis [stylised anagram of Christ?], a pilgrim shell, a castellated building, another Maltese cross, another fleur-de-lis anagram,... There may be more on the hidden sides at the corner; the squat base starts at the top with a ring moulding [which may be actually part of the basin block], then splays to a polygonal shape. The wooden cover is flat and plain, modern. [NB: there is a holy-water-stoup of perhaps medieval date, located between the font and the entrance; it is a crude piece consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal; it is not listed separately in BSI -- cf. Index entry for Eire No. 1 for an object listed for this location as a possible ablutions font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.5182, -7.647256

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 31′ 5.52″ N, 7° 38′ 50.12″ W

UTM: 29T 611118 4708201

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Díez Tejón, Luis, El románico en Lugo, León: Ediciones Lancia, 2008