Moncao / Monção

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view of church exterior - northwest end

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Image Source: B&W image by jofrelimaalves SAPO [http://fotos.sapo.pt/jofrelimaalves/fotos/?uid=z7wZ2bJuFPt87HZVqjCR] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2013 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18450MON
Church/Chapel: Igreja de Santa Maria dos Anjos [aka Igreja Matriz de Monção]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in an alcove beneath the organ
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for the information on the present font and for his photograph of this church
Church Notes: original church said to date to the late-12thC; restored in the 16thC and 17thC
Baptismal font of late date (17th-18th century?) from one of the renovations of the old Romanesque church building here; it consists of a shallow round basin raised on a slender pedestal. [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.078899, -8.479985
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 4′ 44.03″ N, 8° 28′ 47.95″ W
UTM: 29T 543013 4658667

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round