Santa Maria de Noceda in Lalin / Santa María de Noceda, in Lalín

Baptismal font noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Galicia (Pontevedra, vol. 2: 810): 810 [www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-69820.aspx] [accessed 4 May 2018]: "En el interior del templo se conserva una pila bautismal románica. Responde al modelo tradicional románico de copa semiesférica sostenida por un pie cilíndrico. La pieza, realizada en granito, presenta las dos partes decoradas, la copa con un perlado en la panza y el pie con un zigzag inciso delimitado por dos líneas rectas. La simplicidad de los motivos ornamentales no permite establecer una cronología precisa, pero en principio nada indica que sea diferente de la del templo." The font is made of reddish granite; it consists of a large roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a row of ball motif around the lower side, and with a roll moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; it is raised on a squat cylindrical base decorated with two parallel bands of saw-tooth; the upper side of the basin has a nothc-like space cut out for the obvious purpose of placing the font lock there, but it is now empty and there is no cover evident. [NB: there is a vessel resembling a small font or a large stoup in the churchyard at Noceda; it consists of a roughly cylindrical basin raised on a round pedestal base and an octagonal lower base; its outer surface is much eroded and covered in lichens, but have had some carving on at least one of the sides; the basin has no drain hole].