Couso de Salas, in Muíños

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the Santuario dos Miragres, in Couso de Salas was started in the late-18thC and its construction was stopped in the early 19thC; it remains unfinished today

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrián Estévez, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 December 2011 by Adrián Estévez [https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Santuario_Couso_de_Salas_2.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrián Estévez, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 December 2011 by Adrián Estévez [https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Santuario_Couso_de_Salas,_pía.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21733COU
Church/Chapel: Santuario de los Milagros / Santuario dos Miragres
Church Location: Couso de Salas, 32880 Muíños, Orense, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Orense / Ourense, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the OU-302, in the municipality and ENE of Muíños
Font Location in Church: in the unfinished ruins of the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
In the unfinished 18th-century Santuario dos Miragres, in Couso de Salas, is a bptismal font that could be of an earlier date, and from another church, perhpaps even from the parish church of Couso de Salas itself; it consists of a plain roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square pedestal base; the design of the font suggests the 16th century. [NB: the parish church itself is 17th-century; could this be a disused font from it?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 29T 589152 4646080

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round