Cruces / Santa Maria de Cruces
Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 May 2022)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - apse - window
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ventana en el muro oriental del ábside."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santa María de Cruces."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2008
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Igrexa de San María de Cruces, Padrón. Hastial occidental."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2010
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2022
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes, 2022
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
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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