Pentieiros

The font of the old church here, now located in the Museu Alberto Sampaio, is noted and illustrated in Luís de Pina (1928): "Inquirições de D. Afonso II, 1220: “I — De parrochia Sancte Eulalie de Tavoadelo” com o seu abade Petrus Suariz3. A primeira designação de Pentieiros encontra-se no testamento de Domnis Petrus Laurentii, datado de 1228: “et mando ei ipsam hereditatern, quae fuit Domni Suerii, et jaez in collationibus Sancti Petri de Poluoraria ei Sanctae Eulalie de Petenariis...”. By the time Pina visited this church, which he very graphically describes as "Faz pena, a triste carcaça!", it must have already been a ruin. The church itself is also reported by Joze Manoel da Costa Azevedo in the Inquérito paroquial de 1842, Revista de Guimarães, n.º 108, 1998, pp. 451-455 [www.csarmento.uminho.pt/docs/ndat/rg/RG108_052.pdf] [accessed 18 October 2014]: "A igreja é pequena e muito antiga". There is no mention of a font in it. The plaque that accompanies the font in the museum dates the font to the 18th century; why? In general appearance it could be late-medieval; the basin has damage at opposite ends of the upper rim, probably where the font cover hardware was fitted.