Cascais No. 1

[font in Casa Verdades de Faria, Cascais, illustrated in www.archeofactu.pt/frontoffice/default.aspx?ctrl=experiencia_det&id=92&cid=1 [accessed 30 April 2013] -- no download access -- emailed info@archeofactu.pt requesting photos and permission 30 April 2013] -- Archeofactu is the institution doing the restoration of the font in 2009 Comments sent to Joost when he sent the info: 1.- The slanted cut of the upper sides of the basin is odd; very odd. It may be that the object was taller and was re-cut at a later date, but the ornamentation on the side does not support that theory. If it is a font, and if that is the original design, it a unique font. We have never seen anything like that before. 2.- The drain hole on the side. If there is another hole at the bottom of the inner well, the latter would be the proper drain. The side hole could easily be explained if the object was used in a farm or garden. Many such fonts, after being discarded from the church, are re-used in the presbitery/vicarage garden, or bought by farmers to use them as troughs, in either case a side drain is often drilled in them.