Lema in Carballo / San Cristobal de Lema / San Cristóbal de Lema / San Cristovo de Lema

Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image and permission received form the author (e-mail of 30 October 2020)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the only decoration on the font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrimonio Galego, 2020

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Patrimonio Gakego [http://patrimoniogalego.net/index.php/103510/2019/11/igrexa-de-san-cristovo-de-lema/] [accessed 1 November 2020]

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view of church interior - sculpture - fragment

Scene Description: it appears to be part of a Crucifixion reused as decoration near the stairs to the gallery, behind the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author (e-mail of 30 October 2020)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes

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view of font or stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author (e-mail of 30 October 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22984LEM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cristóbal de Lema / Igrexa Parroquial de San Cristovo de Lema
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: La Iglesia 15105 Lema, Coruña, Spain -- Tel.: 981702077
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located N of the AG-55, in the municipality and about 10 km NNE of Carballo, 25-30 km WSW of La Coruña capital
Historical Region: Comarca de Bergantiños
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the gallery stairs
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for his photographs of this object
Church Notes: present church is Baroque, but said to be a re-building of a 12thC church, of which only a part of the east end survived
Baptismal font [or, is et a stoup?] of irregular shape and made of granite; it appears to consist of two blocks: a round basin tapering on the underbowl, plain except for a torus-scotia around the upper side, raised on squat irregular pedestal vase. No cover present. [NB: the location at the foot of the stairs is similar to other fonts or stoups in Galegan churches, like the one at San Martiño de Riobó, in Cabana de Bergantiños, Coruña].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.2833524714, -8.66769219965
UTM: 29T 526984 4792339

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining