Leca do Balio / Leça do Balio

Standing permission

Results: 22 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - 8

Scene Description: probably dragons, but part of their bodies are coovered with large leaves

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row of, all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaves cover some of the animal bodies

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - fruit - pommegranate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around, below the row of ball motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

inscription - partial

Scene Description: this section records the name of the sponsor, Frei João Coelho

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - Knights Hospitaller cross

Scene Description: the Knights Hospitaller had the monastery here for centuries since they received in the 12thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

symbol - thistle

Scene Description: several of them on the underbowl sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2011 by Sara silva [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_do_Balio,_porta_lateral.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2017 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Balio_(2).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2010 by José Moutinho [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_(4893062971).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Bailio_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 January 2005 by Alegna13 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capiteis_portal_principal.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2009 by Pedro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_old_monastery_(5347544574).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2017 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Balio_(1).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2012 by lilivanili [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leça_Monastery_(8046855844).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 02722LEC

Church/Chapel: Igreja de Santa Maria de Leça do Bailio / Igreja de Leça de Balio

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: R. de Santos Lessa, 4465-332 Leça do Balio, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 22 901 0153

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Porto, Norte

Directions to Site: Located off (NE) of the A4-N13 junction, just N of Porto airport, in the municipality of Matosinhos and N of it

Date: 1513

Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic? / Manueline?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Diogo Pires-o-Moço

Cognate Fonts: See also the font at Coimbra (Sé Velha) by the same master

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org] for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: original church said to have been a small 10thC monastery dedicated to Our Saviour , of which nothing remains; documented by the early-11thC; given to the Hospitallers in the 12thC; re-built and dedicated to St Mary in 1180; re-built 1330s; restored 1930s; again 1990s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font here is noted in the SIPA entry [IPA.00004968] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4968] [accessed 5 September 2018]: "Pia baptismal em pedra de Ançã, renascentista, com alguns elementos manuelinos [...] obra da renascença, que segundo Lurdes Craveiro é um dos mais importantes trabalhos do escultor coimbrão Diogo Pires, o Moço [...] inscrições epigrafadas [...] na pia baptismal [...] 1513 - data da pia baptismal, tendo-a mandado executar Frei João Coelho." The octagonal pedestal font by Diogo Pires (the younger) is, like his other font now in the Old Cathedral at Coimbra, an example of the "Manuelino" period of Portuguese art. The octagonal basin is saturated with ornamentation: rosettes under the rim; band of ornamentation with arcade ending in pommegranates at bottom; it is overimposed at the corners by laces and a large shield held by an angel of spread wings; on the shield face, a rampant lion; large artichoke plants taper off under the basin towards the base. The upper part of the base is bulbous and resembles a cloth held at the top by a studded metal brace, a cloth which covers bulging objects and beings hidden within and pushing to break out; and break out they do at the very bottom of the base where their monstrous heads and claws break through the fabric. (Brilho do norte, 1997)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.21, -8.623611

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 12′ 36″ N, 8° 37′ 25″ W

UTM: 29T 531554 4562138

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [pedra de Ançã]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Portuguese

Inscription Notes: partial transcription [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on some of the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: "[...] / d[...]o frei j[oa]o coelho / [...]"

Inscription Source: [cf. Fonrs and ImagesArea]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Brilho do norte: escultura e escultores do norte da Europa em Portugal: época manuelina, Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações des Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997