Cabeca Santa No. 2 / Cabeça Santa
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2011 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17924CAB
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Igreja do Salvador de Cabeça Santa [aka Igreja do São Salvador da Gândara]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Church Location: Praça Carlos Pereira Soares, freguesia de Cabeça Santa ou da Gândara, concelho de Penafiel, distrito do Porto
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Porto, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off the N15, SE of Penafiel and part of its municipality (dir. Entre-os-Rios/Castelo de Paiva)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: similar to the ones at Boelhe and Vila Boa de Quires
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for the photograph of this stoup
Font Notes:
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Crude holy-water stoup inside the church, besides the baptismal font; it is made of coarse granite and consists of a small irregular basin that may be polygonal on the outside, raised on a square stem and a rounded lower base [all shapes are approximate, as the object is rather irregular].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal