Santiago de Compostela No. 11 / Corticela

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: three of them, the uppermost bigger and rounder

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Corticela.jpg] [accessed 15 March 2010]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: at the end of the underbowl

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Corticela.jpg] [accessed 15 March 2010]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the left, the greenish metal post that supports the swing-arm of the cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Corticela.jpg] [accessed 15 March 2010]

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Alfonso III de Asturias manda construir una basílica mayor, la Iglesia de Santiago, y junto a ésta, el monasterio benedictino de Antealtares y su iglesia de San Salvador, y la iglesia monacal de Santa María de la Corticela (899). El caudillo Almanzor destruyó este núcleo (997). A comienzos del siglo XIII se reconstruye esta iglesia de la Corticela, con una bellísima portada, que sigue el estilismo del Maestro Mateo."

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2012 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_María_de_la_Corticela._Portada_(s._XIII).jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - tympanum

Scene Description: with the Adoration of the Magi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Corticela7.jpg] [accessed 15 March 2010] Reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2016 by Andres Muñoz Arteche

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2016)

view of font and cover - upper view

Scene Description: this type of pivoted crane is not common in Spain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 6 November 2015)

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the arm with the scallop end is visible here, with the locking hasp at the front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2016 by Andres Muñoz Arteche

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 November 2016)

INFORMATION

FontID: 16159SAN

Church/Chapel: Igrexa de Santa María a Antiga da Corticela / Iglesia de Santa María La Antigua de Corticela

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Praza da Inmaculada, s/n, CP-15705, Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, España -- Tel.: 981 586 037

Country Name: Spain

Location: Coruña, Galicia

Directions to Site: The former church is now a chapel linked to the Cathedral of Santiago in the 17th century, and situated very near it, to the NE

Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis de Santiago de Compostela

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen and to Andres Muñoz Arteche for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: The original church was an oratory chapel founded by Bishop Sisnando in the 9th century; destroyed by Al-Mansur in 997; re-built in the 12th century and taken over by the Benedictines, but with a tradition as parish church for foreigners and pilgrims

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Although the Igrexa da Corticela itself goes back to the 9th century, the present baptismal font dates probably from the 15th or 16th century, when the former oratory chapel served as a parish church for foreigners and pilgrims; it consists of a round basin decorated with mouldings at the upper and lower ends, raised on a short round base decorated with tracery on the sides. The font cover is not the original, but it is notheless notable and rare, one of very few specimens of the 'swing-arm' type still in operation; a metal arm decorated with the scallop shell is attached to the round metal cover; the arm is pivoted on a metal post raised behind the font; at the front, a hasp fints onto a metal staple on the upper rim side and allows for a padlock to be fitted in. [NB: a somewhat similar example was still in use in a parish church in France ca. 2002; several varieties of crane arms are found in use on fonts of France and Belgium]. The side of the rim shows one of the older staples of the old cover still in place; one side of the basin, near the pivoted arm is unfinished, and suggests the font was originally against a corner.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.880833, -8.54425

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 51″ N, 8° 32′ 39.3″ W

UTM: 29T 537219 4747682

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: yes; swing-arm type

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]