Azinhoso

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Standing permission
Results: 11 records
B01: design element - motifs - geometric
B02: symbol - triquetra
BS01: design element - motifs - floral
LB01: design element - motifs - ball - 4?
Scene Description: one on every other side of the octagonal base, the sides that chamfer in to make the transition of the pedestal base from octagonal to square
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
R01: design element - motifs - flat moulding
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the inner division of the well and the only metal staple of the old cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of font
view of font
view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 18057AZI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja Matriz de Santa Maria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Bragança, Norte
Directions to Site: Located in the concelho de Mogadouro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side of the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Transitional? / Early Gothic?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a broad moulding at the top rim, and an irregular ribbed pattern topped with mostly pentagonal shapes, very irregular as well; curiously for a work of this crudeness of both medium [coarse granite] and local craftmanship, there are tiny floral motifs, including a triquetra, in the spandrels formed between the upper rim moulding and the geometric shapes on the sides; raised on a short octagonal pedestal base of two blocks, the upper one plain and probably part of the basin block, the lower one adorned with ball motifs on every other side, and the lower end square. There is a single metal staple from an old cover in the upper rim of the basin. The inner well of the basin is now divided into two by a vertical partition; this partition must have been a relatively modern addition, as they begin to occur -except very rare exceptions- in France in the 16th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.384, -6.685
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 23′ 2.4″ N, 6° 41′ 6″ W
UTM: 29T 693567 4583972
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining -- partitioned inner basin [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]