Rendufe No. 2

Results: 5 records

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

CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

view of stoup

view of stoup in context

INFORMATION

FontID: 17902REN
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 stoup
Hemispherical wall-mounted holy-water stoup made of fine-grained granite and decorated with mouldings at the upper rim and a pattern of ribs inscribed in round arches around the sides and underbowl; roll moulding at the bottom end. [cf. Index entry for Rendulfe No. 1 for a font of similar shape and period].

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 (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round