Cruces / Santa Maria de Cruces

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view of church exterior - apse - window

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ventana en el muro oriental del ábside."

Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Cruces_(5376061580).jpg] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santa María de Cruces."

Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2008 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camino_de_Santiago_-_Camino_Portugués_(2845774861).jpg] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa de San María de Cruces, Padrón. Hastial occidental."

Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2010 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igrexa_de_San_María_de_Cruces,_Padrón.jpg] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 6 February 2022 bt Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 May 2022)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 6 February 2022 bt Augusto Guedes

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 May 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23911CRU

Church/Chapel: Igrexa de San María de Cruces, Padrón [redundant now]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Cruces, 1, 15980 Padrón, La Coruña, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Coruña, Galicia

Directions to Site: Located off the N-550, in the municipality and 5-6 km N of Padrón, about 15 km SW of Santiago de Compostela

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Santiago

Historical Region: Comarca de Sar

Font Location in Church: Outside the church

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes for bringing this font to our attention and for his photographs of the font

Church Notes: late-12thC(?) much modified 16thC and later; its parroquial role transferred to nearby Iglesia del santuario da escravitude

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

This former parish church has had its parochial role transferred to the nearby Santuario da Escraviude, which may accout for the location of the baptismal font now as a decoration outside the church, exposed to the elements. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with concave ribbing pattern all around the sides and underbowl, raised on a polygonal pedestal base; the basin interior is divided into four: a large side occupting about 2/3 of the space, and three smaller compartments in the rest, the type of division introduced in France in the 16th and 17th century. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.786267, -8.648214

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 47′ 10.56″ N, 8° 38′ 53.57" W

UTM: 29T 528773 4737141

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round [divided]

Basin Exterior Shape: round