Santa Maria do Castelo nr. Alcácer do Sal
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
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Results: 3 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font (the cover standing behind the font)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alvesgaspar, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2013 by Alvesgaspar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alcacer_September_2013-2.jpg] [accessed 19 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20437CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1217?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo [aka Igreja Matriz de Alcácer do Sal]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: present church built on the site of a former Roman temple and, later, a mosque ca. 1217 -- listed building [http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/pt/patrimonio/patrimonio-imovel/pesquisa-do-patrimonio/classificado-ou-em-vias-de-classificacao/geral/view/74821/] [accessed 19 March 2016]
Church Address: Caminho do Castelo, Alcacer do Sal 7580, Portugal
Site Location: Setúbal, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A2, in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal, SE of Setúbal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Évora
Historical Region: Baixo Alentejo
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The present font, consisting of a large basin that is octagonal with a rounded underbowl, on a short round stem with mouldings at both ends, a round-to-square lower base. Either totally re-tooled or, more likely, 18th-century or later. Flat wooden cover, also octagonal. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original early-13th century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info] for his photographs and his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 542535 4247258
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 38.3725, -8.513056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 38° 22′ 21″ N, 8° 30′ 47″ W