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
FontID: 13517MES
Church/Chapel: Igreja Matriz de São Bartolomeu
Church Patron Saints: St. Batholomew
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Algarve, Distrito de Faro
Directions to Site: Located off the IP1, about 14 km NE of Silves
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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].
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