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Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

LB01: design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: all around, slightly inclined

INFORMATION

FontID: 02724SAP
Church/Chapel: Sâo Pedro de Sapiãos (formerly at the Romanesque chapel in the cemetery)
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Vila Real, Norte
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and N of Boticas, 18 km from Chaves and 14 km from Vidago
Font Location in Church: By the wall, under a painting of the Baptism of Christ scene
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Although the Romanesque chapel still stands, the font is in Sâo Pedro.
According to Couto (1998: 54), the Romanesque baptismal font in the present parish church at Sapiaõs was brought in from the old chapel in the cemetery. The font itself is chalice-shaped, of whitish stone; the hemispherical basin has shallow ribs set in a helicoidal manner; the base is a short round pedestal striated to match the ribs of the basin. The wooden cover is of a later date, as probably is the lower base or plinth of the font. [NB: the same source illustrates a large hemispherical basin used as fountain in the "Parque das Merendas" [snack park], near Regueiral; this basin corresponds to the larger size fonts found across the border in Spain, although it may very well be just that, a fountain without any relation to a baptismal font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.710000, -7.638900
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 42′ 36″ N, 7° 38′ 20″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain escept for a finial base in the centre (but no finial)

REFERENCES

Couto, Artur Monteiro do, Património histórico de uma aldeia transmontana: Sapiãos, Lisboa: Câmara Municipal de Boticas, 1998