Guimaraes No. 2 / Guimarais / Guimarães / Guimarãis / Vimaranes

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2005 by Manuel Anastácio [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Igreja_de_Nossa_Senhora_da_Oliveira.jpg] [accessed 29 December 2011]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2007 by Josep Renalias [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Guimar%C3%A3es_-_Nossa_Senhora_da_Oliveira_-_Interior.JPG] [accessed 29 December 2011]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2011

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17818GUI

Church/Chapel: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira [aka Igreja da Colegiada de Guimarães / Colegiada de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Largo da Oliveira, Oliveira do Castelo, 4800 Guimarães

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Braga, Norte

Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km SE of Braga

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque

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

Church Notes: the IGESPAR entry for this church [www.igespar.pt/pt/patrimonio/pesquisa/geral/patrimonioimovel/detail/70509/] [accessed 29 December 2011] reports a pre-Romanesque monastery here by 949, and a collegiate church by the early-12th century

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The present baptismal font in this church is modern, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with deeply-cut and very large leaf motifs, raised on a square stem with mouldings and stylised foliage motifs. Plain round cover. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].

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UTM: 29T 550103 4590737