Otero de Vizbayo No. 1 / Otero de Ponferrada / Vetbayo / Vezbayo / Vizbayo
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: the ribs have been highlighted in a garish pink coat of paint
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of basin - interior - detail
![[NB: unfortunately the source did not record whether there is a drain hole under the modern dish]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200811052_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: unfortunately the source did not record whether there is a drain hole under the modern dish]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of church exterior - apse - detail
Scene Description: most of the ledge here is of the 'taqueado jaqués' pattern, but the left part of it deviates from the pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Entre las primeras muestras del arte románico en El Bierzo, finales del siglo XI."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken Octover 2014 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Vizbayo_(Otero,_Ponferrada).jpg] [accessed 11 August 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Campanario de la iglesia. La espadaña es añadida a la primitiva construcción de finales del XI o principios del XII."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken Octover 2014 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Vizbayo_(Otero,_Ponferrada)._Espadaña.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Localidad de Otero, Ayuntamiento de Ponferrada, comarca de El Bierzo, provincia de León."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hovallef, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2018 by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Vizbayo_y_cementerio.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2020]
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view of church interior - chancel - southeast side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: showing the font beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, north side, beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of font cover
Scene Description: the cover is modern but uses the simple harware locking mechanism used for centuries
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 15886VIZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María de Vizbayo
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Camino la Ermita, s/n, Otero, 24415 Ponferrada, León, Spain -- Tel.: +34 987 42 42 36
Country Name: Spain
Location: León, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the LE-5228, just S of Ponferrada, its suburb now
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Astorga
Historical Region: El Bierzo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in http://picotaycepo.blogspot.com/ [accessed 22 January 2010]; baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispheric basic with ribs all around, raised on a square pedestal base and a circular lower base or plinth partly buried in the ground now; a pair of old iron staples are used to lock the new wooden cover with metal locking hardware. The ribbed pattern that decorates the side of the basin font has been garishly painted in shocking colours recently. [cf. BIS entry for Otero de Vizbayo No. 2 for a similar holy-water stoup in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.537403, -6.5944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 32′ 14.65″ N, 6°35′39.84″ W
UTM: 29T 697546 4712251
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]