Gualtar
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave and convex - ribs framed in round arches
![alternating [cf. Fontnotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120204003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: alternating [cf. Fontnotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 August 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 August 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jose Goncalves, 2009
Image Source: 25 March 2009 by Jose Goncalves [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Igreja_de_Gualtar-Braga.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of stoup
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 August 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17896GUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Miguel [aka Igreja Velha de Gualtar]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Rua da Igreja Velha Gualtar, 4710-069 Braga
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Braga, Norte
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of, and 2 km from Braga
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century, Late Medieval? / Renaissance?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and current font
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a pattern of round arches that inscribe alternating concave and convex ribs; on a round pedestal base. The basin is either of the late-medieval period or it has been re-tooled; the base is of a later date. Near the font is a wall-mounted holy-water stoup that may be medieval. [NB: the fabric of the church is believed to go back to the Romanesque period, but we do not have information on the font of that period].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.568953, -8.389085
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 34′ 8.23″ N, 8° 23′ 20.71″ W
UTM: 29T 550935 4602100
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining