Rio Mau
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
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Results: 14 records
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130429076_compressed.png)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font located in the northwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 December 2006 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130429057_compressed.png)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PedroPVZ, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 May 2012 by PedroPVZ [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Rio_Mau_geral_tumulos.JPG] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of basin - interior - drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - zoomachia - dragon and griffin
Scene Description: zoomachia: a dragon and a griffin?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais (1899-1967); in
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/3479772002/] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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Image Source: detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais (1899-1967); in
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/3479771480/] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais (1899-1967); in
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/3479772002/] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais (1899-1967); in
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/3479771480/] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2012 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PedroPVZ, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2012 by PedroPVZ [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Rio_Mau_geral_tumulos.JPG] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church interior - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais (1899-1967); in
Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/26577438@N06/3478965517/] [accessed 29 April 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - west end - doorway - detail
Scene Description: the interior tympanum on the west doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 December 2006 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: notice a modern font in the right-hand (north) corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2006 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18443RIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: a fragment of another quadrangular font at Couto (São Miguel)
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de São Cristóvão de Rio Mau
Font Location in Church: Outside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Christopher
Church Notes: the present church is all that remains of a former monastery said to have been founded in the 11thC; the present building dates from a re-building of the mid-12thC, with later changes in the 13thC [full info at www.igespar.pt/pt/patrimonio/pesquisa/geral/patrimonioimovel/detail/70620/ [accessed 29 April 2013]]
Church Address: Rua Reitor Abreu 124, 4480-459 Rio Mau, Portugal
Site Location: Porto, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N206, N of the A7, in the municipality and NE of Vila do Conde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Porto
Font Notes:
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The present font in use is modern and located inside the church, at the northwest end of the nave. There are several objects outside the church, near the west entrance, towards the south side; they are locally known as 'tumulos' or stone coffins from the early church here. One of the objects, however, appears to be of a size not suited to a coffin, being roughly square; it has a central drain; it is also of a shape and measurements not unlike some of the quadrangular fonts of the Romanesque period, including one such -though much decorated- at the Colegiata of Leon, Spain [cf. Index entry]; the upper surface of the rim, which ia damaged, is grooved as if to accommodate a cover.
. [NB: further documentation would be useful to determine its origin].
. [NB: further documentation would be useful to determine its origin].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 526796 4583181
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.399722, -8.679444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 23′ 59″ N, 8° 40′ 46″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining -- an additional side drain is reported in it
Trapezoidal Basin: [90 x 90 cm*]
Notes on Measurements: * [rough measurement provided by Joost Limburg]