Sanfins

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design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/1921300109] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2005 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

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view of church exterior - northeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2005 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/1921315497] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/1921315497] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/1922137212] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/freecat/1921309105] [accessed 30 April 2013]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the notch for the cover lock

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

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view of font

Scene Description: notice 1)the partition of the inner basin; 2)the additional notch at the upper rim; 3)the damage to the rim on the right

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18451SAN

Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Fins de Friestas

Church Location: Eiras, 4930-440 Sanfins, Valença

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Valença

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval? / Renaissance?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for the reference to the Boletim do DGEMN, and his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church originally part of a late-12thC monastery

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The font is mentioned in the Boletim of the DGEMN (no. 11, March 1938) which describes the restoration work; in part II "AS OBRAS DA RESTAURAÇÃO", it reads: "XXII — Colocação, no lugar próprio, da pia baptismal primitiva, que fora banida e jazia ao abandono como coisa inútil." [=relocation of the original baptismal font to its proper place; it had been earlier removed and disused as a useless object]. The baptismal font is made of fine granite and consists of a hemispherical basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base that may be of a later date; the basin has a longitudinal moulding all around its middle, with piping up and down at intervals; there is a notch carved out of the upper basin side to fit the old cover lock, and another, to its right, but upper in the rim, that may have had something to do also with cover; some areas of the upper rim are damaged; the inner well of the basin is partitioned by a vertical wall that appears to be made of the same granite as the rest of the basin; if the partition is original, the font would not be any earlier than the 16th century, but if the inner division is a later addition, the basin might be be earlier. The pedestal base is made of a greyer granite and appears of a later date.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.016667, -8.580556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 1′ 0″ N, 8° 34′ 50″ W

UTM: 29T 534728 4651712

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round (partitioned)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: if the drain hole is central it may indicated the partition was a later alteration [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]