Sao Pedro in Trancoso / São Pedro

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - upside-down
design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
view of church exterior in context - west view
INFORMATION
FontID: 19508TRA
Church/Chapel: Igreja Matriz de São Pedro
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Praça Dom Dinis, 6420-051 Trancoso, Guarda, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Guarda, Centro
Directions to Site: Located off the EN102, WNW of Guarda
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese da Guarda
Historical Region: Beira Interior Norte / Beira Alta
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: original church here ca. 1320; present church is 18thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of a tub-shaped basin decorated with a two-strand braid around its middle; the front has a square indentation made to fit a cover lock; raised on a round pedestal base that has an arcade of pointed arches upside down; on a plain round lower base or plinth. Metal cover of octagonal pyramidal shape.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 639776 4516550
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Material:
metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]