Valenca do Minho / Valença do Minho

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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LB01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding - 2

Scene Description: parallel, top and bottom of the short stem of the base

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LID01: design element - motifs - radiated

Scene Description: slightly off centre on the lid

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view of font - upper view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10041VAL
Church/Chapel: Igreja de Santa Maria dos Anjos
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte
Directions to Site: Located on the E1, near Tui, just across the border from Spain
Historical Region: formerly Viana do Castelo district
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Gothic
Baptismal font probably from the 15th or 16th century in the Gothic style. It consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with quasi-vertical sides and a hemispherical underbowl, all of it decorated with a pattern of diagonal ribbing; a rope moulding marks the underbowl-base joint; the stem of the base appears octagonal (?) and is decorated with the same pattern as the basin, as well as with two horizontal mouldings; the lower base appears to have been partly buried in the new stone flooring. There is some damage to the sides of the basin: a large crack and what may be a plugged hole on one side. The wooden cover may be 18th-19th century: it is round, slightly curved, and has a smaller radiated circle raised slightly off centre, so as to allow the hinges to open next to it. [We are grateful to Javier Torrens, of Pamplona, Spain, for the photographs of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: hinged to open partially (about 2/3 of the surface)