Otero de Vizbayo No. 2 / Otero de Ponferrada / Vetbayo / Vezbayo / Vizbayo
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: the ribs themselves very irregular, some practically square, others rounded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 August 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 22844OTE
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María de Vizbayo
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Camino la Ermita, s/n, Otero, 24415 Ponferrada, León, Spain -- Tel.: +34 987 42 42 36
Country Name: Spain
Location: León, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the LE-5228, just S of Ponferrada, its suburb now
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Astorga
Historical Region: El Bierzo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this stoup
Font Notes:
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This holy-water stoup, like the baptismal font in the same church [cf. BSI entry for Otero de Vizbayo No. 1] which it resembles, is a work of crude workmanship; it shares its general shape with the font: a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with a ribbed pattern all around, raised on a square pedestal base; the inner basin of the stoup is shallower and has no drain hole.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.537403, -6.5944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 32′ 14.65″ N, 6°35′39.84″ W
UTM: 29T 697546 4712251
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining