Borba de Godim / São Miguel de Borba de Godim
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the cover lock and the hole for the missing hardware
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 June 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2014 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19302BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Santão
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja Paroquial de São Miguel / Igreja matriz de Borba de Godim
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove on the north side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: original church said to have been founded in the 10thC by Analso Guiçois
Church Address: Lugar de Igreja, 4610 Borba de Godim, Felgueiras
Site Location: Porto, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N101, in the municipality of Felgueiras
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Porto
Historical Region: Douro littoral
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of granite; it consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides, the front with a cut-off for the old font cover lock; on a plain octagonal pedestal base. Plain flat octagonal cover; lock broken, the part on the basin side missing.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 571513 4574479
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 19' 28.25" N, 8° 8' 9.78" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]