Sao Bartolomeu de Messines / São Bartolomeu de Messines
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Image Source: digital photograph in Portugal Virtual [http://www.portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism/algarve/silves/index.html] [accessed 18 April 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13517MES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja Matriz de São Bartolomeu de Messines
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Batholomew
Church Address: R. do Arco 3, 8375-145 São Bartolomeu de Messines, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 282 338 253
Site Location: Algarve, Distrito de Faro, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N124, W of hwy A2, about 15 km NE of Silves
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Algarve
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font probably from the late 17th or early 18th century, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base decorated with roll mouldings, identified in PORTUGAL VIRTUAL [http://www.portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism/algarve/silves/index.html] [accessed 18 April 2008] as having been made from local marble [NB: there may have been an earlier font from the original 16th-century Manueline church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 563287 4123623
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 37.257017, -8.286318
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 37° 15′ 25.26″ N, 8° 17′ 10.75″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble [local marble?]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, plain