Vila Boa de Quires
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2007 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2005 by Alegna13 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_de_Santo_Andr%C3%A9_001.jpg] [accessed 19 February 2012]
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view of church interior - chancel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2005 by Alegna13 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_da_Igreja_de_Santo_Andr%C3%A9.jpg] [accessed 19 February 2012]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: the stoup on the left side of the entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2007 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of stoup
Scene Description: the stoup on the right side of the entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2007 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17923QUI
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Igreja de Santo André
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 4635-709 Vila Boa de Quires, Marco de Canaveses
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Porto, Norte
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Marco de Canaveses
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Porto
Font Location in Church: outside the church, one on each side of the W portal
Century and Period: Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: similar to the ones at Boelhe and Cabeça Santa
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for the photograph of the church and stoups
Church Notes: the church may date back to ca. 1185; it was originally the church of a Benedictine monastery here, and became parish church in the 14th century
Font Notes:
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Pair of holy-water stoups located at the entranceway to the church, one on each side; they are not identical but they are similar, monolithic and made of course granite.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.20812, -8.20110
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 12′ 29.23″ N, 8° 12′ 3.97″ W
UTM: 29T 566977 4562168
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Basin Interior Shape: round