Gagos
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the two mismatched volumes; notice how irregular the basin is, the right side quite flat on the top right, quite curvy on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: notice how the moulding ends towards the right
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: notice how the moulding ends towards the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the indentation created to accommodate the old cover lock
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2013 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18709GAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Capela de Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres [aka Nossa Senhora da Goma]
Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original 'ermida' [=rural chapel] probably of the mid-13thC; re-built in the 18thC
Church Address: 4890-344 Gagos, Braga, Portugal
Site Location: Braga, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N304, in the municipality [=concelho] of, and 6 kmN of, Celorico de Basto
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of two parts: an irregular but roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim; the moulding does not continue all around and covers only about 180 degrees of the circumference; there is a large quadrangular notch cut at the front near the top, where the lock of the old font cover would have been fitted; raised on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base. Not a refined work, perhaps made up of two originally unrelated parts. The wooden cover is conical, with panelled sides and a metal dove on the wooden ball finial. The font is located inside the church, in a sort of alcove made out of the former north entranceway to this church, obviously not the original location.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, forthe information on, and his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.4333333, -8
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 25' 45.35" N, 8° 0' 11.55" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf, FontNotes]