Oca / San Esteban de Oca / Santo Estevo de Oca

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design element - motifs - moulding
design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
view of church exterior - east end
view of church exterior - east end - detail
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - apse - detail
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 19831OCA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban de Oca / Igrexa de Santo Estevo de Oca
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Oca - 36685 A Estrada (Pontevedra), Spain -- Tel.: +34 686 986 326
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Estrada / A Estrada, 25-30 km SE of Santiago de Compostela
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santiago de Compostela
Historical Region: Comarca de Tabeirós - Tierra de Montes / Comarca del Deza-Tabeirós
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove off the SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font of coarse granite loacted in an alcove at the southwest corner of the nave; the font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a pattern of diagonal ribs all around and down the underbowl, and a short round moulded lower base. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.750124,
-8.3801
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 45′ 0.44″ N,
8° 22′ 48.36″ W
UTM: 29T 550731 4733253
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
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]