Dos Iglesias No. 2 / 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)
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design element - motifs - diaper, nail-head or saltire - in a square
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 basin
Scene Description: notice the thick sides of the basin
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 basin
Scene Description: covered in moss and lichen
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)
view of font in context
Scene Description: the two old basins as displayed outside the church
INFORMATION
FontID: 19799DOS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de Dos Iglesias / Igrexa Parroquial de Santa María de Dúas Igrexas
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
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: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
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 round, almost bucket-shaped, made of very coarse reddish granite; it has considerable damage to the upper rim; there is a band of decoration all around which resembles either nail-head or dog-tooth motif in a square; the surface of the stone is badly covered in moss and lichen; there is no base. 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, granite
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
