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
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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)
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: 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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 22985RIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín de Riobó / Igrexa de San Martiño de Riobó
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: medieval church of the Romanesque period/style
Church Address: Unnamed Road, Riobó, 15149 Cabana de Bergantiños, Coruña, Spain -- Tel.: +34 981 72 50 26
Site Location: Coruña, Galicia, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: dameged font / disused font (serving as planter soutside the church)
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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for the photograph of this object
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 511637 4781114
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]