Bodano / Bodaño / San Mamede de Bodaño

Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 April 2020)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 22638BOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia / Igrexa de San Mamede de Bodaño
Church Patron Saints: St. Mammes of Cesarea [aka Mamas, Mammas, Mammet]
Church Location: Lugar Susovila, 38, 36598 Bodaño, Vila de Cruces, Pontevedra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Pontevedra, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the EP-6005, E of the PO-205, in the municipality of Vila de Cruces, about 30 km ESE of Santiago de Compostela, 50-60 km NE of Pontevedra capital
Font Location in Church: Outside, in the churchyard
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font now [2020] disused and located in the churchyard; it consists of two pieces of granite of different colours: a plain hemispherical basin and a plain cylindrical pedestal base; they could be from different periods, the base perhaps modern. No cover present. The basin is covered in lichens.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.757631, -8.199019
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 45′ 27.47″ N, 8° 11′ 56.47″ W
UTM: 29T 565543 4734212
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round