Sao Pedro in Trancoso / São Pedro

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014

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Results: 4 records

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - upside-down

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: notice the niche carved for an old cover lock

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior in context - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vitor Oliveira, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2005 by Vitor Oliveira [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trancoso.JPG] [accessed 17 November 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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
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]