Guimaraes No. 1 / Guimarais / Guimarães / Guimarãis / Vimaranes
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2010 by Gerda Schulz
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.com]
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09207GUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de São Miguel do Castelo [aka Igreja do Castelo]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: R. Conde Dom Henrique 3, 4800-412 Guimarães, Portugal
Site Location: Braga, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km SE of Braga
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Historical Region: formerly Minho province, Braga district
Additional Comments: famous person font: it is claimed that Dom Afonso Henríques [Afonso I, King of Portugal, 1109?-1185], was baptised in it
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.com, and to Gerda Schulz, for their photographs of church and font
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