Caleiro / Santa Maria de Caleiro / Santa María de Caleiro / Villa Callerii

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view of church exterior - apse
view of church exterior - apse - detail
view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "la mesa del altar es del siglo XII"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/2034321683/in/photostream/] [accessed 16 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - west façade
view of church exterior - west portal
view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
view of church interior - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 22623CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial / Igrexa de Santa María de Caleiro
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: EP-9704, 44, 36629 Vilanova de Arousa, Pontevedra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 986 554 021
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the EP-9704 - P-302 crossroads, in the municipality and E of Villanueva de Arosa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Alicia Padín Buceta for her photographs of this font and church
Church Notes: traces of an earlier [Romanesque?] church are reported here and a church was documented in Caleiro ca. 1114; the present church is chiefly 16thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font relegated to the rectory until the 2016 renovation of the church was completed; then re-installed inside; the font is a plain hemispherical basin resting directly on the ground; probably medieval.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.561657, -8.813561
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 33′ 42″ N, 8° 48′ 49″ W
UTM: 29T 515300 4712157
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining