Nossa Senhora da Fresta in Trancoso
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - interior - drain
Scene Description: the blocked drain
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg
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view of base
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 October 2014 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19509TRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Fresta [formerly Santa Maria do Sepulcro]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Church listed in SIPA [ref.: IPA.00002995] [Número IPA Antigo: PT020913180007] as Romanesque and Baroque; original inscription near portal 1177
Church Address: Calçada da Senhora da Fresta, 6420-189 Trancoso , Guarda, Portugal
Site Location: Guarda, Centro, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the EN102, WNW of Guarda -- the church is outside the town walls, and now integrated in the cemetery
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese da Guarda
Historical Region: Beira Interior Norte / Beira Alta
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone; appears to have been put together with four unrelated pieces; the basin is roughly hemispherical and plain, rather shallow on the inside; retains an old metal staple for the anchorage of an old cover, though none is present now; raised on a pedestal base made of three unrelated and unmatched blocks. The basin is probably late medieval.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: four
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin [now blocked]
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]