Sao Mateus da Calheta / São Mateus da Calheta
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design element - motifs - ball-in-socket - 4
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2007 by José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Pia_Baptismal_da_Igreja_Velha_de_S%C3%A3o_Mateus_da_Calheta_destru%C3%ADda_por_um_temporal.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2013]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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view of church exterior - west façade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2009 by Carlos Luis M C da Cruz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fte_gde_s_mateus_4.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2013]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: the new Church of São Mateus in the context of the town
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2002 by José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:São_Mateus_da_Calheta,_casario,_Angra_do_Heroísmo,_ilha_Terceira,_Açores.JPG] [accessed 2 June 2013]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: walls of the Forte Grande de São Mateus and the new Church of São Mateus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlos Luis M C da Cruz, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2009 by Carlos Luis M C da Cruz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fte_gde_s_mateus_2.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
Scene Description: the font of the old church after being damaged by a storm on 28 August 1893 [="Pia Baptismal da Igreja Velha de São Mateus da Calheta destruída por um temporal [...] 1893, 28 Agosto - ciclone deixa a igreja destelhada, a qual foi abandonada"]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18487CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja Paroquial de São Mateus da Calheta
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Church Location: 27° 16′ 11.93″ W
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Açores
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira island, Azores
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Angra
Font Location in Church: 38° 39′ 24.62″ N
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic? / Manueline?
Church Notes: original church here first documented in 1557, but present church is mostly late-19thC and early-20thC [full description in SIPA entry IPA.00029671 [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=29671] [accessed 2 June 2013]]
In 1560, the settlement was elevated to the status of ecclesiastical parish, and the first reference for the new parish of São Mateus da Prainha in 1568.[...] But, it was only in 1641 that the first records were issued by the parish [...] between 1694 and 1700, the Church was demolished and reconstructed in the interior [...] By 1700, the church building project was concluded, it would later being referred to as the Old Church (Portuguese: Igreja Velha).[...] On 28 August 1893, this Church was hit by a tempest, leaving it roofless and causing its abandon ...] On 21 September 1895, the cornerstone was placed to launch the building of a new church"
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the earlier church here, the basin said to have been much damaged by a storm in August 1893; the font consists of a roughly semispheric basin that woukd have had varied ornamentation of which little has survived: traces of a ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl, and some motif around the bottom of the underbowl, with a large roll moulding at the neck of the base; the base is round-to-square, the lower square part decorated with ball-in-socket motif at the angles.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.656839, -27.269981
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 39′ 24.62″ N, 27° 16′ 11.93″ W
UTM: 26S 476509 4278731
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round