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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by Gerda Schulz

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09207GUI

Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Miguel do Castelo [aka Igreja do Castelo]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Braga, Norte

Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km SE of Braga

Historical Region: formerly Minho province, Braga district

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.com, and to Gerda Schulz, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in DGEMN Boletim (issue 20, June 1940: 10, 18, 24). Romanesque baptismal font -- claimed to be the font in which Afonso I, [Dom Afonso Henriques] King of Portugal [1109?-1185] was baptised, which would date it to the late-11th or early-12th century at the latest. The font is made of granite and consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with mouldings at both ends, raised on a plain circular pedestal base. It may be possible that the font is as early as claimed [cf. supra]; it is more likely a century older.

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UTM: 29T 550103 4590737