Sao Paio No. 2 / São Paio
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave and covex
Scene Description: odd pattern that alternates one of each all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2012 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19194PAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja do Convento dominicano de São Domingos de Guimarães / Igreja Paroquial de São Paio / Museu Martins Sarmento
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Dominic
Church Notes: IGESPAR [www.igespar.pt/pt/patrimonio/pesquisa/geral/patrimonioimovel/detail/72909/] [accessed 27 April 2014] notes: dates from 1271; demolished by D. Dinis (reign 1275-1325); re-built late-14thC; restored 20thC -- became parochial when the parish church itself was demolished in 1914 -- church Listed in SIPA [IPA.00001896] [http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1896] [accessed 22 September 2025]
Church Address: São Paio, Guimarães, Portugal
Site Location: Braga, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N101, in the municipality and just W of Guimarães
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Historical Region: Vale do Ave, Terras de Basto
Additional Comments: [disappeared font? (was there a font in the earlier churches -13thC and 14thC- here?)
Font Notes:
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Noted in the parish site [www.paroquia-ssebastiao.com/a-igreja] [accessed 27 April 2014] as a baptismal font of the 16th century. Baptismal font made of granite, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a torus-scotia combination at the upper end, a ribbed pattern with alternating convex and concave ribs around the underbowl, raised on a modern pedestal base of circular shape. There is a round, flat and plain wooden cover secured to the upper rim of the basin; the metal staples securing the cover have damaged and split the stone.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 558725 4588083
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.442179, -8.297015
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 26′ 31.84″ N, 8° 17′ 49.25″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]