Sanfins
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Results: 10 records
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2013 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the notch for the cover lock
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2013 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - moulding and piping
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
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 - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2005 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 November 2005 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
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 - west portal - south side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
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 church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/1921315497] [accessed 30 April 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18451SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval? / Renaissance?
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de São Fins de Friestas, Sanfins
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church originally part of a late-12thC monastery
Church Address: Eiras, 4930-440 Sanfins, Valença, Portugal
Site Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N101, in the municipality and 6-7 km ENE of Valença
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 534728 4651712
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.016667, -8.580556
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 1′ 0″ N, 8° 34′ 50″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (partitioned)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: [cf. FontNotes]
Drainage Notes: if the drain hole is central it may indicated the partition was a later alteration [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]