Lourosa No. 1 / Oliveira do Hospital nr. Coimbra

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018

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Results: 14 records

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the bottom of the basin and a channel for the water

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2018 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2018 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: the reconstructed portal; in the tympanum space, on the lintel, is a stone with the inscription often assumed to date the church itself to 912 [Era 950] -- [NB: the author's use of the adjective 'Visigothic' applied to this church may be inappropriate, as the original church is attributed to the early-10thC]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © João Carvalho, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by João Carvalho [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_visigótica_em_Lourosa_2248.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Epígrafe com a presumível datação da edificação da igreja. Era DCCCCL (950 d.C.)" [NB: the author's dating is wrong; the Era dating of 950 corresponds to the year 912 d.C.AD [i.e., AD]]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJBorges, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph by MJBorges dated 7 June 2016 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fig_3-_Epígrafe_com_a_presumível_datação_da_edificação_da_igreja._Era_DCCCCL_(950_d.C.)..jpg] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018

Image Source: digital image in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "O interior da igreja após o restauro de 1933/1934".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DGMN, 1934

Image Source: 2016 digital rendering by MJBorges of a DGMN photograph taken ca. 1934 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foto_23_1934_Lourosa_igreja_depois_das_obras_interior_foto_DGMN.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "vista do interior da igreja antes das obras de 1930, vendo-se o antigo coro sobre a porta de entrada (actual nártex)."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: 2016 digital rendering by MJBorges of a photograph taken before 1930 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PretoAAA.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Scene Description: view of the west end of the nave and across into the north aisle, the northwest corner where the remains of the sunken font are located

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_33311_P_Lourosa.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: barely discernible in the left [southwest] corner is a baptismal font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018

Image Source: digital image in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA

view of church interior - north aisle - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018

Image Source: digital image in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: this plan shows the location of the three fonts: the sunkeb one at the west end of the north aisle, and the two pedestal fonts at the corners of the west end of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018

Image Source: digital image in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA

view of church interior - plan

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018

Image Source: digital image in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA

view of font

Scene Description: what remains of the sunken font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2018 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: the base (?) of the sunken font in the context of the west end of the north aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2018 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13243LOU
Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Pedro / Igreja Matrix de Lourosa
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Largo Igreja, Lourosa, Coimbra, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Coimbra, Centro
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the M517-CM1322 crossroads, S of the N17 / IC3, NE of Coimbra capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Coimbra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the left (N) aisle
Date: ca. 912?
Century and Period: 10th century (early?), Early Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info] for his photographs of this church and fonts
The entry for this church in SIPA [IPA.00002801] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2801] [accessed 7 October 2018] describes this church as a rare example of pre-Romanesque architecture re-using and re-working materials from the earlier Roman buildings [="Igreja paroquial que constitui um raro exemplar de arquitectura pré-românica do Ocidente peninsular, com abundante materiral romano reaproveitado e reelaborado"]. The font itself is noted as being at the west end of the north aisle, an irregular circular basr and a channel for the water [="suporte para baptistério no topo O. da nave lateral N., composto por base circular irregular escavada na rocha e um pequeno canal para águas"]. Noted in Antunes [http://portugalinterior.com] [accessed 2 December 2007]: ancient baptismal font excavated on the ground at the entrance, in the north aisle of the church [="primitiva pila baptismal que se encontra cavada no solo à entrada, na nave lateral esquerda"] [NB: to be completed]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.3175, -7.9319
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 19′ 3″ N, 7° 55′ 54.84″ W
UTM: 29T 590750 4463545