Couto (São Miguel) No. 2 / Sao Miguel do Couto / São Miguel do Couto

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - interior

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - upper view

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view of font

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Joost Limburg

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Joost Limburg

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19198COU
Church/Chapel: Igreja Paroquial de São Miguel [aka Igreja de São Rosendo, Igreja Matriz de São Miguel do Couto]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Rua Padre Luís Gonzaga Martins Pinheiro (EN 319), 4780 Santo Tirso
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Porto, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off the N319, 7 km SE of Santo Tirso
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Porto
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the sacristy
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this object
There is a font-like object made of granite in the sacristy of this church; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin, the sides graded in five broad flat mouldings; it is raised on a round pedestal base of a different stone, perhaps not the original.

COORDINATES

UTM: 29T 544954 4575685

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Notes on Measurements: "The basin is a little less than 1 meter wide" [source: e-mail from Joost Limburg of 4 May 2014]