Cambre

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 9 January 2016 by arturo martinez, in 100 Lugares en Galicia [http://1000-lugares-en-galicia.blogspot.ca/2016/01/iglesia-romanica-de-santa-maria-de-cambre-el-interior.html] [accessed 8 September 2017]

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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 November 2007 by Alma

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2007 by Alma

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2007 by Alma

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2007 by Alma

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0

view of font

Scene Description: the disused font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2010 by Ane Iciar & Iñigo Fernandez de Rivera

Copyright Instructions: Permission received via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Scene Description: the secont of two fonts

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2010 by Ane Iciar & Iñigo Fernandez de Rivera

Copyright Instructions: Permission received via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Scene Description: a second font in this church; not in use for baptisms at present; it is located at the west end of the nave, north side, across from the font in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the disused font as displayed in an exhibition

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2012 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/8182568973/in/photostream/] [accessed 23 April 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side -- notice the end of ribbed pattern and the inscribed Greek cross on this side of the basin

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font in use at present [2017] in its location at the west end of the nave, south side -- notice the ribbed pattern on this side of the basin

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view of stoup

Scene Description: one of two stoups in this church, this one located at the west end of the nave; it consists of an irregular polygonal basin raised on a fragment of a foliated capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

view of stoup

Scene Description: a composite holy-water stoup located on the outer side of the sacristy doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 September 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09183CAM

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María / Igrexa de Santa María de Cambre

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Calle Atrio 0, 15660 Cambre, Spain -- Tel.: +34 981 675 157

Country Name: Spain

Location: Coruña, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of the same name, 10-12 km from La Coruña capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ane Iciar & Iñigo Fernandez de Rivera, and to Francisco José García Gómez, for their photographs of this church and objects

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Otero Pedrayo (1926) refers to Ambrosio de Morales' 'Viaje santo' [1572?], in which it is noted that there is a noteworthy font in its church. It appears that this is the same as the 'hydria' claimed to be from Jerusalem, that was used for baptisms. Described in Castillo López (1987 c1972) as an old and interesting baptismal font ["Antigua y curiosa pila de bautizar, al parecer"]. In Vila de Vila (1983). -- [NB: there is an illustration of a 'font' in Belén María Castro Fernández' doctoral thesis 'Francisco Pons-Sorolla y Arnau, arquitecto-restaurador: sus intervenciones …' fig. 27 p. 18 -- to be entered in BIB]: the 'font' appears in the exterior of a building or a courtyard: it is a roughly hemispherical basin resting directly on the ground -- the font illustrated in Pons-Sorolla y Arnau's report (p. 18, fig. 27, with caption date "ca. 1968. APS", does look like any of the four objects now [2017] in this church]. José Antonio Gil Martínez shows a photograph of a baptismal font decorated with a Greek cross inscribed in a circle [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/1800742960] [accessed 8 September 2017] and writes: "Pila bautismal en la que se pueden apreciar las huellas de la Orden del Temple. En este caso es un símbolo solar que a su vez representa diferentes períodos o fases en que se divide un ciclo, como pueden ser los cuatro momentos del día, las cuatro fases de la luna, las cuatro estaciones del año o las cuatro edades de la humanidad. Este signo es una cruz inscrita en un círculo que está en la puerta principal de la iglesia de Fisterra y en esta pila bautismal de Santa María de Cambre." Of the four objects noted in this church the baptismal font in use [Object No. 1 in this entry] is located at the west end, south side of the nave; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding below the upper rim, a pattern of rib-like piping around the basin and underbowl except on the one side on which it has a Greek cross inscribed in a cricle, on the sides of which the ribs adjust shape to 'frame' the cricle; raised on a round pedestal base decorated with a rope moulding; its font cover is round, flat and plain; modern. Despite some of the motifs that hark at an early style, the font is probably not as early as it has been dated [12thC] by some, but rather late-medieval or even later. Object No. 2 is located opposite Object No. 1, at the west end of the nave, on the north side; this is one object that has become known locally as "la Hidria de Caná"; it is much battered font consisting of round basin that has lost part of its original shape; the upper end had originally a frame that formed four (?) panels around the basin, somewhat like a cage; inside each of the four panels is a rosette; the underbowl has floral patterns of concentric shape; the base is a round pedestal, parts of which, and the square plinth, are modern; it has no cover present and it has been much damaged around the upper half of the basin. Object No. 3 is a holy-water stoup located at the west end of the nave, against one of the pillars; it consists of a very irregular polygonal basin raised on whar appears to be a fragment of a foliated capital. Object No. 4 is also a composite holy-water stoup, located by the doorway of the sacristy; it consists of a round, almost tubular, basin with two rows of scallops around the top in a castellated arrangement; on the front it has an inscription that includes the capital letters P E in a vertical arrangement; the short cylindrical upper base has two rows of saw-tooth motif, and a beaded-tape row below; the next block appears to be round-to-square, moulded around the round part, knobbed at the square angles; the last piece at the bottom is round; the whole appears to have been put together from totally unrelated pieces.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.292222, -8.342778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 17′ 32″ N, 8° 20′ 34″ W

UTM: 29T 553315 4793476

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Castillo López, Angel, Inventario de la riqueza monumental y artística de Galicia, [La Coruña]: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 1987 (c1972)

Otero Pedrayo, Ramón, Guía de Galicia, [La Coruña?]: Galaxia, 1901

Vila da Vila, Margarita, "La llamada "Hidria de Caná" de Santa María de Cambre : un testimonio del románico de tierra Santa en Galicia", 4 (1983), Brigantium. Boletín do Museo Arqueolóxico e Histórico da Coruña, 1983, pp. 157-182; r["References"]