Diomondi / San Pelayo de Diomondi / San Paio de Diomondi
Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
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church - liturgical function?
Scene Description: there appears to be a row of standing on to the left of two figures, one probably kneeling, the other standing, arms in orant position; there are more standing figures to the right of the hexafoil motif; are they part of the same scene?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - motifs - hexafoil - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Augusto Guedes
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human figure - standing - 2
![a taller one in the back has its hands on the shorter one in front [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200418008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a taller one in the back has its hands on the shorter one in front [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Augusto Guedes
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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symbol - cross - Latin - 2
Scene Description: two such are seen here to the left of the carved human figure; are they original? added later?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2019 by Augusto Guedes
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the row of figures to the left of the scene(?) appear now as flat ribs due to erosion; at the extreme left is another hexafoil motif inscribed in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Augusto Guedes
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 April 2020)
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Augusto Guedes
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view of basin - interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Augusto Guedes
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view of basin - interior - drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - apse - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Abside1.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Paio de Diomondi (antiguo monasterio)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lansbricae, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2008 by Lansbricae [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Paio_de_Diomondi.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Detalle_porta_lateral.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diomondi_San_Pelayo_419.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diomondi_San_Pelayo_421.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Detalle_porta_lateral_2.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Detalle_porta_lateral_3.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © m.dolores paderne sa…, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2007 by m.dolores paderne sa… [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_románica_de_Diomondi_S.XII_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Fachada2.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Fachada3.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loischantada, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 April 2011by Loischantada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_San_Paio_de_Diomondi_-_O_Saviñao_-_Fachada3.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lansbricae, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 November 2008 by Lansbricae [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Paio_de_Diomondi_2.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Capitel románico representando centauros, posteriormente modificados, adquirindo unha semellanza con seréas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lansbricae, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 November 2008 by Lansbricae [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Paio_de_Diomondi_4.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: curious re-carving: the figures on the left capital here were originally centaurs armed with bows and arrows, but were later re-carved as (almost) sirens
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diomondi_San_Pelayo_417.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lansbricae, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2008 by Lansbricae [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Paio_de_Diomondi_3.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: notice the traces of paint still on some of the capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diomondi_San_Pelayo_427.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: notice the traces of paint still on some of the capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diomondi_San_Pelayo_418.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Recio Barbier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2019 by Maria Recio Barbier
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the hexafoil motif is clearly visible here, on the left, as are the figures between it and the scene(?) on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Recio Barbier, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2019 by Maria Recio Barbier
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Augusto Guedes
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 February 2011 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/5430756987/] [accessed 11 May 2019]
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view of font and stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 November 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 22146DIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [antiguo monasterio] de San Pelayo / Igrexa Parroquial [antigo mosteiro] de San Paio
Church Patron Saints: St. Pelagius of Córdoba [aka Paio / Pelayo of Córdoba]
Church Location: San Pelayo de Diomondi / San Paio de Diomondi, Saviñao, 27548 Galegos, Lugo, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located W of the Lu-533, between Galegos (S) and Buxan (N), in the municipality of Saviñao, about 6 km E of Chantada
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo
Historical Region: Tierra / Terra de Lemos / Robeira Sacra
Font Location in Church: inside the church, by the W doorway
Date: ca. 1231?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes, Maria Recio Barbier and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of and comments on this church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of coarse granite consisting of a roughly hemispherical, though almost cylindrical, basin raised on a sorth round pedestal base; the upper rim of the basin is decorated with a rope moulding; on the visible sides below -the back of the font is now inaccessible, against the wall- has what appears to be a scene involving several [three?] human figures: one small or kneeling, an orant figure on the right, and a standing figure on the left; on the further left a series of stylised standing figures appear; the surface is worn and therefore not ease to read; to the right of the scene is a hexafoiled motif inscribed in a circle; the rest of the basin, to the right of this motif is now hidden from view; the inner basin has a human figure carved on one of the sides and two Latin crosses next to it; central drain; the base is short and round, narrowing towards the bottom where it ends in a moulding. There is flat, round and plain wooden cover; it appears relatively modern. Augusto Guedes [Amigos del Romanico, e-mail communication with BSI] sugiere una datacion ca. 1231, year in which king Fernando III returns the 'coto' and the monastery to the bishop of Lugo, and the time of the second phase in the constuction of the church. Guedes [ibid.] points out that figure carved on the inside of the basin is actually two, a taller one in the back has its hands on the shoulders of a shorter one in front, the head of the latter at about chest-high of the former. Also in this church, and located near the font, is a plain holy-water stoup, probably medieval as well; it consists of a plain cylindrical basin raised on an equally plain round pedestal base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.603778, -7.709472
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 36′ 13.6″ N, 7° 42′ 34.1″ W
UTM: 29T 605863 4717624
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern