San Mamede de Castro / Castro San Mamede
Image copyright © Satna, 2016
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Results: 4 records
view of font or stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pía no exterior da Igrexa de San Mamede de Castro (Paradela)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Satna, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2016 by Satna [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMamededeCastroPía.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2018]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: a series (8?) of round arch-heads all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Satna, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 August 2016 by Satna [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMamededeCastroPía.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2018]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Satna, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 August 2016 by Satna [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMamededeCastroPía.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa parroquial de San Mamede de Castro (Paradela)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Satna, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2016 by Satna [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMamededeCastroIgr.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21743CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church / Chapel Name: Igrexa parroquial de San Mamede de Castro
Font Location in Church: outside the church, by the W entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mammes of Cesarea [aka Mamas, Mammas, Mammet]
Church Address: Lugar Castro, 5P, 27611 Castro, Lugo, Spain
Site Location: Lugo, Galicia, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the LU-633, in the parish of Paradela, W of Sárria, SSW of Lugo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lugo
Historical Region: comarca de Sarria
Additional Comments: disused font or stoup (standing outside the church west entranceway
Font Notes:
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An object located now [August 2016] outside the west doorway of this church; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a row of round arch-heads below a flat moulding at the upper rim; raised on a square pedestal base. The object is infested with lichen; it may be late-medieval. No cover present. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font in use in this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 615164 4737068
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.7775, -7.592167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 46′ 39″ N, 7° 35′ 31.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining