Abragao / Abragão

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: one of the Romanesque capitals of the original 12th-century church

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: one of the Romanesque capitals of the original 12th-century church

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view of font

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2011 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17648ABR

Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Pedro [aka Igreja Matriz de Abragão]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Rua Paçal, freguesia de Abragão, concelho de Penafiel, distrito do Porto.

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Porto, Norte

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N15 - IP4/E82, SE and in the municipality of Penafiel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th century(late?),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: "Monumento Nacional, pelo Dec. 129/77, DR 226, de 29 de setembro de 1977 " -- "A existência da Igreja de São Pedro de Abragão está documentada desde 1105, data em que Paio Peres Romeu doa, em testamento, “a quarta parte de Sancto Petro de Auregam ao Mosteiro do Salvador de Paço de Sousa”" [source: www.rotadoromanico.com [accessed 5 September 2011]]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of goblet shape; the basin has a double roll moulding at the upper rim; the stem is round and splaying, with a roll mouldig at the top; the lower basi is square and plain; the inner well of the basin appears to be divided in compartments for water, chrismon, etc. The wooden cover is round and flat, split and hinged in the middle; it is modern. The reddish stone of the font appears to be a course granite, surprisingly much eroded. The font is located in its own alcove and protected by a low railing. [NB: the original church is documented by 1105, of which time some capitals remain; the present church appears to a lrge extent the result of the late-17th century renovation; we have no information on the baptismal font of the original church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]