Merza

Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 May 2020)

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: painted bright yellow

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 May 2020)

design element - patterns - ribbed - flat

Scene Description: all around and painted

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 May 2020)

view of church exterior - apse - southeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ábsida_da_igrexa_de_Santa_María_de_Merza.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa de Santa María de Merza, Vila de Cruces. Románica dunha soa nave e ábsida semicircular."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Merza.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of font

Scene Description: the wooden structure on top is a processional image, not a font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 May 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22655MER
Church/Chapel: Iglesia / Igrexa Parroquial de Santa María de Merza
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: c/ Moa s/n, O Outeiro, Merza (Santa María), 36590 Vila de Cruces, Pontevedra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 986 58 35 11
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the PO-204 - PO-6502 crossroads, WSW of As Cruces, in the municipality of Vila de Cruces, ESE of Santiago de Compostela
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augsto Guedes for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church here said to be originally mid-12thC
Baptismal font noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Galicia. Pontevedra. Vol. II: 766 [http://www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-69763.aspx] [accessed 13 May 2020]. The font cpnsists of a roughly hemispherical basin with broad flat ribs all around the sides, a rope moulding below; on a round splaying pedestal and a quadrangular lower base. The font is brightly painted.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 46' 9.9" N, 8º 15' 36" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining