Oya / Oia No. 2

Results: 4 records

design element - motifs - flat moulding

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

design element - patterns - scalloped

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 18970OYA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de Santa Maria [formerly the abbey church of the Monasterio de Oya/Oia]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 36794 Oya, Pontevedra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 986362125
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the C-550, S of Bayona/Baiona, S of Tomiño and N of Rosal, 45 km from Vigo, 65 from Pontevedra
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Tui-Vigo
Historical Region: Comarca del Bajo Miño
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Maria Recio, of Bilbao, Spain, for her photographs of this monastery and fonts
Stone baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a broad flat moulding at the upper rim, with a band of scalloped pattern below; concave ribbing on the underbowl; raised on a circular pedestal base. Wooden cover, plain, flat and round.

COORDINATES

UTM: 29T 511042 4649785

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