Riobo en Cabana de Bergantinos No. 1 / Riobó en Cabana de Bergantiños / San Martiño de Riobó en Cabana de Bergantiños / San Martin de Riobo / San Martín de Riobó / San Martiño de Riobó
Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2020)
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
Scene Description: notice the cutting on the side to fit a side cover lock
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2020)
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lugar de Riobo, Riobó, Riobó, Cabana de Bergantiños (Cabana de Bergantiños)." -- the church is visible in the centre of the image
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: with the church visible in the centre of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alfonso Márquez, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2011 by Alfonso Márquez
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of font in context
Scene Description: the disused font outside is located the church now serving as planter
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2020 by Augusto Guedes
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 22985RIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín de Riobó / Igrexa de San Martiño de Riobó
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Unnamed Road, Riobó, 15149 Cabana de Bergantiños, Coruña, Spain -- Tel.: +34 981 72 50 26
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located W of the LC-423, in the municipality and SE of Cabana de Bergantiños, NW of Santiago de C., WSW of La Coruña capital [***NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH RIOBO EN ESTRADA, PONTEVEDRA***]
Historical Region: Comarca de Bergantiños
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for the photograph of this object
Church Notes: medieval church of the Romanesque period/style
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font now disused and serving as planter outside the church; it consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with protruding gadroons on the sides; on one of the sides, below the upper rim, it shows a large notch cut out for the installation of a side cover lock; the basin upper area shows damage which may have led to the disuse of the font; the pedestal base, which is of a different colour, has a round moulded stem and a square lower base; on a quadrangular plinth. [NB: there are two other objects of interest listed in BSI as Riobo en Cabana de Bergantinos Nos. 2 and 3]
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 511637 4781114
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]