Boente

Image copyright © Andy Eccles, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 July 2023)
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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the off-centre drain hole, and the damage to the back rim, probably caused by a metal anchoring for the cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Eccles, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph May 2023 by Andy Eccles
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 July 2023)
view of basin and cover - upper view
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - west view
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 24762BOE
Church/Chapel: Igrexa parroquial de Santiago Apostol
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Boente, 15826 Arzúa, La Coruña, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Coruña, Galicia
Directions to Site: Located off the N547, roughly equidistant between Arzúa (W) and Melide (E), about 40 km E of Santiago de Compostela
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andy Eccles for his photographs of this church, font and stoup
Church Notes: 12thC church with many later modifications
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal of granite consisting of a quadrangular basin raised on a round pedesstal base and a square lower base; all parts are plain. Wooden cover is flat and plain, also square. The wall-mounted holy-water stoup is of a later date.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.9175,
-8.078056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 55′ 3″ N,
8° 4′ 41″ W
UTM: 29T 575247 4752066
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]