Brito nr. Guimarães
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: oval-shaped; no drain; damaged side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal
Scene Description: several
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: branch-like; seen here on the right panel of the basin
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design element - motifs - whorl
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - whorl
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
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information
Scene Description: museum label -- date claim rather ambitious, as the item is quite likely medieval or late-medieval; also probably not a font but a holy-water stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17983BRI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Museum: Alberto Sampaio Museum, Guimarães, MAS L 12
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja Matriz de São João Baptista de Brito
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Avenida Igreja, 4805-035 Brito, Guimarães, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 253 576 626
Site Location: Braga, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the ER310, in the municipality and 5-6 km WNW of Guimarães
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Additional Comments: disused stoup / damaged stoup (now in a museum) -- disappeared font? (the one from the same church?)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Almeida (1971) as a holy-water stoup incorporates motifs of an earlier style. [cf. Index entry for a font at nearby Candoso São Martinho, about which Almeida has relevant remarks]. The granite stoup consists of a heptagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with six-petal rosettes, the panels on the underbowl with whorls; one of the sides is badly damaged, with a large part missing; raised on a modern pedestal base. [NB: the fabric of the present church dates to the 18th century, but the stoup appears to be medieval or late-medieval; was there an earlier font here as well?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 552941 4589409
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: heptagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Drainage System: no drainage system
Drainage Notes: no lining
Trapezoidal Basin: 50-60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * estimated measurement by Joost Limburg (e-mail to BSI of 5 July 2014)
REFERENCES
- Almeida, Carlos Alberto Ferreira de, "Primeiras Impressões sobre a Arquitectura Românica Portuguesa", 2 (1971), Revista da Faculdade de Letras: Serie de Historia, 1971, pp. 65-116; p. 77, fn44 and fig. 5