Lobios / Lobios in Sober / San Julian de Lobios / San Xillao de Lobios

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns

Scene Description: the photographer claims there remains evidence of a blind arcade resting on columns towards the upper side of the font: "quedan evidencias de que la embocadura de la copa se festoneaba con una serie de arcos ciegos apeados en columnas" -- it is hard to see this now, but is it not a hint of two such arches on the left side?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Conserva tapiada la puerta norte, que daba acceso al claustro, que tiene chambrana de ajedrezado y decoración geométrica y vegetal."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "PORTADA SUR adelantada al muro del templo, con podium muy desarrollado, línea de imposta marcada, muy abocinada, con su propio tejaroz y canecillos, que expresa un lenguaje formal alejado de la tradición arquitectónica gallega y nos acerca a los usos constructivos y conceptos estéticos del mundo castellano-leonés."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "iglesia románica de San Xillao o San Xulían de Lobios, uno de los mejores ejemplos de tardorrománico que se conservan en la Ribeira Sacra. Edificada ya bien entrado el primer tercio del siglo XIII, perteneció a un antiguo monasterio de monjas benedictinas."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "En el interior del templo se conserva una PILA BAUTISMAL ubicada a los pies de la nave, bajo el coro de madera. Se trata de una sencilla pila estructurada en copa tipo semicircular y fuste de sección cilíndrica que descansa directamente sobre el suelo. Aunque su estado de conservación no es muy bueno quedan evidencias de que la embocadura de la copa se festoneaba con una serie de arcos ciegos apeados en columnas."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22514LOB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia / Igrexa Parroquial [formerly monastic] de San Xillao [aka San Xulían] de Lobios
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian [aka Julianus]
Church Location: Lobios, 27423 Sober, Lugo, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the LU-P-5903, S of the N-120, in the municipality and 6 km SE of Sober, 11 km S of Monforte de Lemos
Historical Region: Ribeira sacra / Tierrra de Lemos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Church Notes: original church of a late-13thC female Benedictine monastery; modified 16th, 18thC
The baptismal font in this church is made of granite and consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base; it appears to be totally plain but, as suggested by Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/search?q=san+xillao+de+lobios] [accessed 29 December 2019], there appear to be traces of a blind arcade of round arches on columnar supports on it The wooden cover, flat, round and plain, appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 24' 28.9" N, 7º 31' 52.9" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]