Taboada dos Freires No. 2
Image copyright © Alberto García Roldán and Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo, 2019
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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/p/pilas-de-agua-bendita-y-bautismales.html#] [accessed 29 December 2019]
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symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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/p/pilas-de-agua-bendita-y-bautismales.html#] [accessed 29 December 2019]
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view of stoup
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/p/pilas-de-agua-bendita-y-bautismales.html#] [accessed 29 December 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22515TAB
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia / Igrexa de Santa María de Taboada dos Freires
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 27555 Taboada dos Freires, Lugo, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lugo, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the LU-P-6001, 3-4 km WSW of Taboada and the N-540, 45-50 km SW of Lugo capital
Historical Region: Ribeira sacra / Comarca de Chantada
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 12thC church -- The inscription on the portal of this church is studied in James D'Emilio's 'Inscriptions and the Romanesque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia', Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies, edited by Colum Hourihane (Tempe: ACMRS, 2007) [http://demilio.myweb.usf.edu/Articles/Demilio_inscriptions.pdf] [accessed 29 December 2019]: "The cruder execution of the west tympanum of the modest church of Santa María de Taboada dos Freires did not discourage its authors from touting their work. A text naming the sculptor, Pelagivs magister, and its author, Iohane q(vi) notvit, crowds the irregular space above the lobed arch framing figures of Samson and the lion (Fig. 2). Below it, a heavily abbreviated notice of the consecration — difficult to decipher — begins, oddly, in the lower of two regularly spaced horizontal lines, forming a lintel. On the underside, the date, ERA MCCXXVIII (1190 A.D.), is deeply cut in monumental letters." This text is footnoted: "In 1935, the removal of plaster revealed the inscriptions. Diverse readings have been published: J. Ramón y Fernández Oxea, "Pelagio, maestro románico,” Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología 12 (1936): 171-76; idem,, Santa María de Taboada dos Freires,” Boletín de la Comisión Provincial de Monumentos Históricos y Artísticos de Orense15 (1945): 16-21; F. Vázquez Saco, "Iglesias románicas de la provincia de Lugo, papeleta 153" Iglesia parroquial de Santa María de Taboada dos Freires,” Boletín de la Comisión Provincial de Monumentos Histórico-Artísticos de Lugo 6 (1956-1957): 161-65."
Font Notes:
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Wall-mounted holy-water stoup noted and illustrated in Alberto García Roldán in Galicia Pueblo a Pueblo [https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/p/pilas-de-agua-bendita-y-bautismales.html#] [accessed 29 December 2019]; quasi-cylindrical in shape, slightly tapering; broad flat moulding at the upper rim, with rope moulding below and, as if part of a cinculum, two strands diagonally towards the base. It could be, like the font itself, of the original church here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.698363, -7.820763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41′ 54.11″ N, 7° 49′ 14.75″ W
UTM: 29T 596587 4727993
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round