Souto No. 1 / San Andres de Souto / San Andrés de Souto / Santo André de Souto

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INFORMATION
FontID: 21851SOU
Church/Chapel: Capilla de San Benito de Montillón de Arriba / Capela de San Bieito / Ermida de San Bieito en Montillón
Church Patron Saints: St. Benedict [aka Benet]
Church Location: Montillon de Arriba-Souto, 36684 La Estrada, Pontevedra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the PO-222, in the municipality of La Estrada, and about 10 km from it
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocesis de Santiago de Compostela, Arciprestazgo de Tabeirós
Historical Region: Comarca de Tabeirós - Tierra de Montes
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel, N side
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for bringing this font to our attention and for his photographs of this object
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
A rural chapel here is documented in Madoz' Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus [...] (Madrid, 1849, vol. 14, p. 524). Damián Porto Rico, in his Inventario de ermidas, capelanías e obras pías da Estrada (1567-1959) (2007) [http://dspace.aestrada.com/jspui/bitstream/123456789/446/1/pg_189-286_estrada10.pdf] [accessed 27 October 2018] writes: "Precisamente en Montillón (Souto) se conserva aínda no lado do Evanxeo da capela de San Bieito, a que pode ser a pía bautismal máis antiga da comarca, que xa chamou noutrora a atención do polígrafo e xuíz da Estrada Fermín Bouza Brei. Cadrangular, románica, datada no segundo tercio do século XIII e portando unha inscrición no borde da súa boca que nos ofrece o nome de quen puido ser un dos presbíteros pioneiros en propagar a palabra de Deus na zona: 'Fredenandus Pr[esbiter] fecit fonts et restauravit e[cc]le[si]a vocabula s[anc]t[i] ben[e]dic[t]i'" [the source is given as Bouza Brei, F. Pila bautismal con epígrafe de Montillón, en Compostellanum, tomo XII, nº 4, 1967. Páxs. 651-652]. There is also evidence of the Mass being said at the chapel in a mid-17th century document cited in Porto Rico (2007) in which a diocesan or archdeaconal visit ordered "don Jacinto Campelo", the local priest, not to celebrate Mass in the chapel before he did it at the nearby parish church, which had obviously been happening at the time.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: quadrangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: the priest Fredenandus may have had the font made and the church restored, despite the phrase"fecit fonts et restauravit" of the inscription
Inscription Location: around the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: "Fredenandus Pr[esbiter] fecit fonts et restauravit e[cc]le[si]a vocabula s[anc]t[i] ben[e]dic[t]i"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]