Dos Iglesias No. 1 / Dos-Iglesias / Dúas Igrexas / Santa María de Dos Iglesias
Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
Results: 3 records
view of basin
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: one of the two basins is partially visible between the tree and the grey car
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Pereira, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 Februay 2007 by Lourdes Pereira [www.panoramio.com/photo/1310574] [accessed 6 April 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: the two old basins as displayed outside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19798DOS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de Dos Iglesias / Igrexa Parroquial de Santa María de Dúas Igrexas
Church Location: Dos Iglesias, 36549 Santa María de Dúas Igrexas (Pontevedra), Spain -- Tel.: 986 75 52 13
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the PO-2005, in the municipality of Forcarey, and just NE of it, 45 km from Pontevedra capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pontevedra
Historical Region: Terra de Montes
Font Location in Church: outside the church, W end
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photograph of this font
Dos-Iglesias (Santa María de) appears in several 19th-century sources as a parish in the municipality of Forcarey, diocese of Santiago de Compostela. The unedited entry in Galipedia/Wikipedia [http://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dúas_Igrexas,_Forcarei] [accessed 6 April 2015] notes that there is a Romanesque baptismal font from the former Igrexa de San Vicente [="No interior conserva unha pía bautismal románica da antiga igrexa de San Vicente."] There are two stone basins that are now [2015] located outside the church, near the western entrance; one of them is roughly hemispherical and has a large chunk broken off from its upper rim area; there is also damage on the opposite side of the rim, which suggests these two were the locations for the metal anchors of an old cover. We have no information on which of these two fonts was the original from the disappeared Igrexa de San Vicente, and which was the font of the original church here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 36' 9.19" N,
8° 20' 6.53" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
