Moncao / Monção
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2012
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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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W image by jofrelimaalves SAPO [http://fotos.sapo.pt/jofrelimaalves/fotos/?uid=z7wZ2bJuFPt87HZVqjCR] [accessed 30 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain ["Foto pública e pode ser usada em sites e blogs. Publicada em 13 de Abril de 2013"]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18450MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Santa Maria dos Anjos [aka Igreja Matriz de Monção]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in an alcove beneath the organ
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original church said to date to the late-12thC; restored in the 16thC and 17thC
Church Address: R. de João Pinho 17, 4950-486 Monção, Portugal
Site Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the EN202, just S of the border with Spain at the Minho river
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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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].
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 543013 4658667
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.078899, -8.479985
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 4′ 44.03″ N, 8° 28′ 47.95″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round