Pombeiro de Ribavizela
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoenportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoenportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - cloister
![probably from the 18th-century restoration [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120211046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: probably from the 18th-century restoration [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Mosteiro_de_Santa_Maria_de_Pombeiro.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17912POM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Pombeiro
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Porto, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Felgueiras, in the Vale do Sousa region
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in this monastery church is made of grey and pink granite and consists of a large polygonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a short octagonal stem and an octagonal-to-square lower base decorated with scrolls at the angles. The octagonal wooden cover is plain and flat, modern. [NB: according to the SIPA entry for this church [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4864] [accessed 11 February 2012] the monastery was founded on 13 July 1059 by D. Gomes Aciegas. The present font is relatively modern, probably 18th-century, perhaps from the restoration and expansion by Frei José de Santo António Vilaça -- we have no information on the medieval font here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoenportugal.org, for his photograph of the modern font here
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 564747 4581525
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.382644, -8.225644
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 22′ 57.52″ N, 8° 13′ 32.32″ W