Vilar de Donas No. 2
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design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: around the upper rim
symbol - cross - Cruz de la Orden de Santiago
view of stoup
INFORMATION
FontID: 19793VIL
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador [Priorato de la Orden de Santiago]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the N-547, near Portos, 45 kmSW of Lugo capital, in the municipality of Palas de Rei/Rey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo
Historical Region: Comarca de Ulloa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup made of granite consisting of a round, roughly conical basin decorated with a large Cross of Saint James [NB: the church was a priory of the Order of Santiago] on the front, and with a rope motif around the basin rim, raised on a round-to-octagonal pedestal base and a square lower base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.892567, -7.810764
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53' 33.24 N, 7° 48' 38.75" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round