Lisbon / Lisboa
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2016
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alvesgaspar, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by Alvesgaspar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisboa_May_2013-1.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concierge.2C, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2009 by Concierge.2C [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sé-Catedral_de_Lisboa_-_Pia_batismal.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 February 2016 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09539LIS
Church/Chapel: Sé catedral / Santa Maria Maior de Lisboa / Sé Patriarcal de Lisboa
Church Location: Largo da Sé, 1100-585 Lisboa, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 21 886 6752
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Distrito de Lisboa, Centro
Directions to Site: The cathedral is located off (N) the N6 [aka Avda. Infante Dom Hemrique], E of the Barrio Alto, on the N shore of the Tagus estuary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 17th century, Renasissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: original church here 1147, but earlier remains exist; much damaged in several earthquakes, expanded, re-built, etc.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font is made of brownish marble and consists of a tall octagonal basin with tapering panelled sides; short moulded octagonal lower base. Plain flat wooden cover with handle; modern. [NB: we have no information on the original baptismal in which St. Antony of Padua [named Fernando Bulhões and born in Lisbon] was baptised in/ca. 1195].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
38.70985,
-9.132983
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
38° 42′ 35.46″ N,
9° 7′ 58.74″ W
UTM: 29S 488438 4284588
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]