Coura / Coria / Coyra

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

Scene Description: at the lower angles

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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design element - patterns - ribbed - flat

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: is the drain hole now cemented over?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 October 2014 by Joost Limburg

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19513COU

Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Martinho

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Ribeirinho, 4940 Coura, Paredes de Coura, Guarda, Portugal -- Tel.: 251943265

Country Name: Portugal

Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of, and 15 km from, Paredes de Coura

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo

Historical Region: Alto Minho / Minho-Lima

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church listed in SIPA [ref.: IPA.00022239] [Número IPA Antigo: PT011605050103] -- appears as ‘Sanctus Martinus de Coria’ in 1258, and ‘Sancti Martini de Coiram’ in 1320 [http://acer-pt.org/vmdacer/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=433&Itemid=69] [accessed 17 November 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in SIPA [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=22239] [accessed 17 November 2014]: "A [p]ia baptismal e de água benta junto ao portal axial devem datar do séc. 16, a primeira relativamente de pequenas dimensões, decorada inferior e superiormente por torçal e sobre pé com chanfros e elemento decorativo enrolado nos ângulos." [=the baptismal font and the holy-water stoup located by the entranceway date probably from the 16th century; the font is relatively small, decorated with torsade mouldings around the upper and lower rims, raised on a pedestal base with chamfered corners and ornamental motifs at the angles]. The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated as indicated above, with what appear to be flat ribbing pattern between the rope mouldings, though the ribing is just the space between vertical grooves on the sides of the basin; raised on a square pedestal base with chamfered angles and spurs at the lower ends. No font cover present but there are traces of cover hardware and related damage around the upper rim. The basin is badly worn and has several large cracks in it; there appears to be no drain hole in the basin now, but it may have been cemented over.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.885091, -8.658863

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 52' 49.85" N, 8° 38' 59.26" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining