Rendufe No. 1

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Results: 5 records

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 September 2011 by Joost Limburg for BSI

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 September 2011 by Joost Limburg for BSI

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 September 2011 by Joost Limburg for BSI

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view of church exterior - west end

Scene Description: in the context of the Monastery buildings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2004 by João Miranda [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_rendufe.jpg] [accesed 5 February 2012]

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view of font and stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2011 by Joost Limburg for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17901REN

Church/Chapel: Igreja do Mostiero beneditino de Santo André de Rendufe

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Braga, Norte

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Amares

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance

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

Church Notes: original church here said to date from the mid-12th century, perhaps earlier than the monastery itself

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font of the monastery church here is made of a fine-grained granite and consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim and a pattern of stylised ribs inscribed in round arches all around the basin and underbowl; the roll moulding of the centre ring is part of the basin stone; raised on a cylindrical base with a roll moulding at the bottom; moulded round-to-square lower base. There is damage to the upper rim, some of it repaired and consistent with the presence of cover hardware. There is a now round, flat and plain cover on the font. To the right of the font is a wall-mounted holy-water stoup of the same shape and period, perhaps the 17th century. [NB: the church here is said to date back to the mid-12th century, but we have no information on its font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.635906, -8.405983

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 38′ 9.26″ N, 8° 24′ 21.54″ W

UTM: 29T 549475 4609523

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]