Brito nr. Guimarães

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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal

Scene Description: several

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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 - foliage

Scene Description: branch-like; seen here on the right panel of the basin

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design element - motifs - whorl

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design element - motifs - whorl

Scene Description: several

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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

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: oval-shaped; no drain; damaged side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17983BRI
Museum and Inventory Number: Alberto Sampaio Museum, Guimarães
Church/Chapel: Igreja Matriz de São João Baptista de Brito
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Avenida Igreja, 4805-035 Brito, Guimarães
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Braga, Norte
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Guimarães
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of this stoup
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?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 29T 552941 4589409

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: heptagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
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; r["References"]