Aciveiro / Acibeiro

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/182400846] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/182401043] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: late font or stoup and old tomb inside the monastery church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by Alma [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapida_sepulcral_2_mosteiro_de_aciveiro.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by Alma [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nave_central_igrexa_Mosteiro_Aciveiro.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2015]

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view of object

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 19796ACI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Monasterio de Santa Maria de Aciveiro / Igrexa do mosteiro de Santa María de Aciveiro

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Lugar de Aciveiro, S/N, 36556 Forcarei, Pontevedra, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Pontevedra, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Forcarey / Forcarei

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pontevedra

Historical Region: Tierra de Montes

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this object

Church Notes: original church here 12thC; former Cistercian monastery church now parish church [NB: the rest of the monastery is now [2004] a hotel]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Morgade Saavedra, et al. (2004) illustrate two vessels that have survived in this monastery: 1)a baptismal font located at the west end of the north aisle; it is a late font, perhaps 17th- or 18th-century, consisting of a round basin with tapering sides decorated with geometrical panels, on a round moulded pedestal base; the object appears much damaged at the upper rim, with restoration in a clearer material; 2) a basin and lower base, but no pedestal upper base, at the threshold of one of the doors; its basin is not dissimilar from the one of the surviving font, and it is clearly damaged as well, but not repaired; the lower base, if that is what it is, is a rather irregular quadrangular block. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church of the Cistercian monastery here, unless the object located now outside the church is part of it].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.6175, -8.301667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 37′ 3″ N, 8° 18′ 6″ W

UTM: 29T 557272 4718577

REFERENCES

Hotel monumento Mosterio de Aciveiro, Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia, Consellería de Cultura, Comunicación Social e Turismo, Dirección Xeral de Turismo, 2004