Cangues Santo Estevo / Cangues in O Irixo / Santo Estevo de Cangués
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view of church exterior - northeast view - corbel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_Santo_Estevo_de_Cangués,_O_Irixo,_Galicia,_Canzorros.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_Santo_Estevo_do_Cangues.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa de Santo Estevo de Cangués, O Irixo, Galicia. Aspecto actual de estilo claramente barroco."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_Santo_Estevo_de_Cangués,_O_Irixo,_Galicia.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2018]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pía batismal no adro da igrexa de Santo Estevo de Cangués, O Irixo, Galiza".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_Santo_Estevo_de_Cangués,_O_Irixo._Pía.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21724CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igraxa parroquial do Santo Estevo de Cangués
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Santo Estevo de Cangués, 32535 O Irixo, Orense, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Orense / Ourense, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the OU-902, SSE of O Irixo, and in its municipality
Font Location in Church: outside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: original Romanesque (?) church re-built early 18thC, with few remains from the original church left;
Font Notes:
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Yet another font disused and left exposed to all weathers outside the church; the two blocks, covered in moss and lichens now [Dec. 2007] may be the basin and base of a medieval font of this church; the church itself goes back to the12th-13th century according to some sources, but the font does not have any distinguishing characteristics of any particular age, other than its general shape: a roughly hemispherical basin and a round (?) short base [if that is what it is].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 28' 18.9" N, 8º 05' 24.9" W