San Gines de Bamio / San Ginés de Bamio / San Xens de Bamio / San Xinés de Bamio
Image copyright © Alicia Padín Buceta, 2020
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design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: the carving, though much eroded, is discernible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alicia Padín Buceta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Alicia Padín Buceta
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: one of the two disused fonts is visible on the north side of the church, left of the west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2009 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamio,_Vilagarcía_de_Arousa,_090905_Igrexa_parroquial_de.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: the surface of the font is badly eroded but it appears that there was some carving on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 September 2009 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamio,_Vilagarcía,_090828_043.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: a second font of a much later date, perhaps 17th or 18thC; the basin interior shows the typical partitions for holy water, chirsmon, etc., and the larger opening for the infant, partitions that begin to appear in French fonts of the 16thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2009 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamio,_Vilagarcía_de_Arousa,_Galicia_08.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alicia Padín Buceta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Alicia Padín Buceta
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alicia Padín Buceta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Alicia Padín Buceta
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alicia Padín Buceta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2016 by Alicia Padín Buceta
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view of font in context
Scene Description: possibly medieval or late-medieval
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2009 by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamio,_Vilagarcía,_090828_043.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL
INFORMATION
FontID: 22071BAM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Ginés de Bamio / Igrexa Parroquial de San Xens de Bamio
Church Patron Saints: St. Genesius of Arles [aka Genès, Geniès. Gennis, Gennys]
Church Location: Rúa Campanario, 63, 36618 San Xens de Bamio, Villagarcía de Arosa, Pontevedra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the coastal road of Salnés, between El Grove and Pontecesures, in the municipality, and N of Villagarcía de Arosa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Santiago
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 16th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Alicia Padín Buceta for her photographs of this font
There are two baptismal fonts disused outside the church now. One of them is the usual hemispherical basin on a round squat base; the sides, now badly eroded, appear to show some earlier carving on them; the shape of the font is such that it could belong to the medieval or late-medieval period. The second font consists of a shallow but roughly hemispherical basin raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal base; the inner basin is partitioned to accommodate the holy water, the oils and salt, and a larger hollow for the infant; it would not be earlier than the 16th century, and most likely of the 17th or 18th. We have no information on the font being used inside the church at this time, if any.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42º 38.01' 21" N,
8° 45' 39.69'' W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round