Viana do Castelo No. 1

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Results: 12 records

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B01: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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B02: design element - motifs - vegetal

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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B03: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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BBU01: design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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UB01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4-petal

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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UB02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage?

Scene Description: some of them resenble pilgrim shells -- the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - west façade

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]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the present font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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view of font or stoup in context

Scene Description: the earlier font or stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Joost Limburg

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17900VIA

Church/Chapel: Sé Catedral de Viana do Castelo [aka Igreja Matriz de Viana do Castelo]

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte

Directions to Site: Located in the Minho-Lima area

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo

Font Location in Church: Inside the cathedral church

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of the two fonts (?)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.693333, -8.827222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 41′ 36″ N, 8° 49′ 38″ W

UTM: 29T 514378 4615743

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]