Santa Maria Maior nr. Viana do Castelo

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BU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 October 2011 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by MTeresaSoares [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capela_das_Almas.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2012]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the side building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by MTeresaSoares [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capela_das_Almas_%28edif%C3%ADcio_lateral%29.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2011 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17899MAI

Church/Chapel: Capela das Almas [aka Igreja das Almas]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Largo das Almas, 4900 Santa Maria Maior, Viana do Castelo

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Viana do Castelo

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo

Historical Region: Minho

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font (or is it a large stoup?) consisting of a plain, roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a very large rope moulding below the underbowl, and raised on a polygonal pedestal base which may be a later addition. Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org] remarks to BSI (email of 11 September 2011) on the church here: " It's roots are old, below the chancel are the remains of the foundations of a pre-Romanesque building. Of the Romanesque period only an small part of the N and S walls of the chancel are left. This was the 'igreja paroquial' [parish church] before the Sé was built in the 15th century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.694413, -8.825159

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 41′ 39.89″ N, 8° 49′ 30.57″ W

UTM: 29T 514549 4615863

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, with moulded sides; modern