Vivero No. 1 / Vivairo / Vivario / Vivarium / Viveiro

Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

Results: 11 records

animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified

Scene Description: said to be part of Biblical scenes [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

design element - motifs - moulding - 2

Scene Description: this view of the font shows the very irregular shape of the basin, the crudeness of the carving and the later replacement base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

view of baptistery

Scene Description: the font is locked in the metal railing enclosure -- notice the wall-mounted granite stoup on the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

view of church exterior - east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xosema, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2014 by Xosema [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viveiro_-_Igrexa_de_Santa_Maria_do_Campo_-_03.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Viveiro, Iglesia de Santa Maria - Vista desde A Calexa das Monxas"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FirkinCat, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by FirkinCat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_11076TM.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES

view of church exterior - northwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xosema, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 October 2014 by Xosema [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viveiro_-_Igrexa_de_Santa_Maria_do_Campo_-_01.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xosema, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 October 2014 by Xosema [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viveiro_-_Igrexa_de_Santa_Maria_do_Campo_-_04.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FirkinCat, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by FirkinCat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_11065.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Concierto de Adral en Santa Maria - Viveiro"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enrique Pernas Rouco, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2011 by Enrique Pernas Rouco [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_-_Concierto_Adral.JPG] [accessed 14 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 November 2014 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20117VIV
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María del Campo / Igrexa de Santa María do Campo
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Rúa Felipe Prieto, s/n, CP-27850, Viveiro, Lugo, España
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the LU-540, ENE of Ferrol, N of Lugo capital. The church is located at the top of the old centre of town, by the Monasterio de la Concepción
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Mondoñedo-Ferrol
Historical Region: Comarca de La Mariña Occidental
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: original church here 12thC
Baptismal font consisting of a reddish coarse-grain granite basin of roughly cylindrical shape, raised on an un-matched square pedestal base; the basin is of very crude workmanship, the shape is quite irregular and the crude carvings, some identifiable as quadrupeds, are said to represent Biblical scenes; the basin has a thick moulding on the lower side, very crude and irregular, like the rest. It is located in an enclosed area at the west end of the nave. The font cover is modern; round and hinged at the back. There is a granite wall-mounted stoup to the left of it; date unknown.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.661801, -7.594568
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 39′ 42.49″ N, 7° 35′ 40.45″ W
UTM: 29T 613318 4835271

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]