Viana do Castelo No. 1
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Standing permission
Results: 12 records
B01: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
![the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120219017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: design element - motifs - vegetal
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B03: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BBU01: design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4-petal
![the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120219018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
UB02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage?
Scene Description: some of them resenble pilgrim shells -- the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font or stoup
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font or stoup in context
![the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120219015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josep Renalias, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2007 by Josep Renalias [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Esgl%C3%A9sia_major_de_Viana_do_Castelo_-_Fa%C3%A7ana.JPG] [accessed 5 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17900VIA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Sé Catedral de Viana do Castelo [aka Igreja Matriz de Viana do Castelo]
Font Location in Church: Inside the cathedral church
Site Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the mouth of the Lima river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-15th century building?)
Font Notes:
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Inside the church here is a composite object that appears to be used at present as holy-water stoup; it consists of an octagonal basin of light pink stone (limestone?) with a torus-scotia-torus at the upper rim, and diagonal ribs with heraldic emblem(s) alternating with vegetal motifs on the rounded sides and underbowl; a moulding at the bottom of the underbowl. The pedestal base is also octagonal, but both the colour of the stone and the ornamentation are illmatched with the basin, suggesting the composite nature of the object; the side panels have columns of square four-petaled rosettes alternating with columns of other floral (and shell?) motifs; thick mouldings at each end, with the lower base square. The damage to the upper rim of the basin suggests that there may have been cover hardware in the rim, which reinforce the possibility of this object having been originally a baptismal font. The present font in the cathedral is made of fine granite [stone identified by Joost Limburg] and consists of an urn-shaped octagonal basin decorated with a profusion of mouldings, scallop, foliage, etc., motifs, raised on an octagonal pedestal base equally ornamented. the font cover is octagonal, flat and plain, and appears modern. [NB: the cathedral dates from the mid-15th century, but we have no information on its original font].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of the two fonts (?)
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 514378 4615743
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.693333, -8.827222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 41′ 36″ N, 8° 49′ 38″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]