Vilela
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Joost Limburg
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design element - patterns - ribbed
![notice the eroded and damaged surface of the stone [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130426008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice the eroded and damaged surface of the stone [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Joost Limburg
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Scene Description: inside the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2013 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18435VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Santo Estêvão [Mosteiro de Cónegos Crúzios/Regrantes de Santo Estevão de Vilela]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: the original monastery is believed to date to ca. 1000, documented since 1030, as would have been its original Romanesque church; the present church is an 18thC re-construction; there are few remains of the original church
Church Address: Avenida Nossa Senhora de Fátima, 4580 Vilela, Paredes, Portugal
Site Location: Porto, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the EM602, in the municipality and 8-9 km NW of Paredes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Porto
Additional Comments: composite font? (the present one, consisting of a 16thC(?) basin on a later base) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original ca.1000 church here
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of a composite nature, consisting of a circular basin made of coarse granite, vertical sides with a rounded underbowl, the outer surface decorated with a pattern of very thin ribs that carry on the underbowl; the surface is in very poor state of conservation, much eroded and with spots of damage all over but specially at the upper sides and rim; it is raised on a round pedestal base drcorated with a similar pattern, but of different stone and probably later date, as is the lower base. No cover present, but there is sheet of transparent glass or plastic protecting the top.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 551584 4565151
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining