Breixa / Santiago de Breixa
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
Results: 13 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: appears to be part of the basin block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
design element - patterns - ribbed - wavy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Igrexa de Santiago de Breixa, no concello pontevedrés de Silleda."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bene Riobó, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 January 2019 by Bene Riobó [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_Santiago_de_Breixa.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Detras de la iglesia de Santiago, se encuentra la rectoral con una enorme parra en el patio de entrada."
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:Rectoral_de_Breixa_(2395726907).jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - apse - detail
Scene Description: notice the capitals supporting the arch-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
view of church interior - chancel arch - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © amaianos, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2011 by amaianos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_Santiago_de_Breixa,_Silleda_(6447883871).jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail
!["En la cara central del capitel izquierdo del arco triunfal del ábside se puede ver una pareja de centauros afrontados. Uno de ellos se dispone a lanzar con el arco que agarra con su brazo izquierdo una flecha que sostiene con su mano derecha. El objetivo es una de las dos arpías que están situadas en las caras laterales del capitel. Dentro del arco se puede leer la inscripción SAGITARIOS. Todas las figuras apoyan sus patas sobre los astrágalos o collarinos inferiores del capitel." [source: Carlos Satre [www.claustro.com/OtrosTemas/Centauro/Webpages/Pontevedra/CentauroFicha_Breixa.htm] [accessed 31 March 2021]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210331007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "En la cara central del capitel izquierdo del arco triunfal del ábside se puede ver una pareja de centauros afrontados. Uno de ellos se dispone a lanzar con el arco que agarra con su brazo izquierdo una flecha que sostiene con su mano derecha. El objetivo es una de las dos arpías que están situadas en las caras laterales del capitel. Dentro del arco se puede leer la inscripción SAGITARIOS. Todas las figuras apoyan sus patas sobre los astrágalos o collarinos inferiores del capitel." [source: Carlos Satre [www.claustro.com/OtrosTemas/Centauro/Webpages/Pontevedra/CentauroFicha_Breixa.htm] [accessed 31 March 2021]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © amaianos, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2011 by amaianos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_Santiago_de_Breixa,_Silleda_(6426686075).jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption; "Sereas peixe nun capitel da igrexa de Santiago de Breixa (Silleda)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2008 by Lameiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silleda_Breixa_01-04.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD-self
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © amaianos, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2011 by amaianos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_Santiago_de_Breixa,_Silleda_(6447909849).jpg] [accessed 31 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: part of the lower round-to-square lower base appears to be semi-buried in the ground -- notice the danage to the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the northwest corner, near the west entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 March 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 23246BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia / Igrexa de Santiago de Breixa
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: PO-6502, Breixa, 36546 Silleda, Pontevedra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 986 580 000
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the PO-6502, 4 km N of Silleda and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pontevedra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: detailed illustrated description of this church in Antonio Garcia Omedes [http://www.arquivoltas.com/11-Galicia/01-Breixa1.htm] [accessed 31 March 2021]; it does not mention the font -- photo essay at https://galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com/2018/03/santiago-de-breixa-silleda.html [accessed 31 March 2021]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone [granite?] consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a pair of parallel rope mouldings all around below the upper rim, with a pattern of wavy ribs covering the rest of the basin and underbowl, with another moulding below; on a short cylindrical base and a round-to-square lower base that appears to be mostly buried in the ground. Wooden cover present; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 44' 6.0" N, 8º 15' 29.0" W
UTM: 29T 560744 4731665
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite?
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]