Santa Maria do Bouro
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - with inserts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: the portal from the original Romanesque church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2016
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1946 [SIPA FOTO.00044489] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1123] [accessed 3 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with the Termos e condições de utilização (DGPC)
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the later font and cover are visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160403004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the later font and cover are visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2016
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1946 [SIPA FOTO.00044540] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1123] [accessed 3 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with the Termos e condições de utilização (DGPC)
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20487BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Santa Maria (part of the Convento de Santa Maria) [the convent is now an inn/pousada]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: originally a Benedictine monastery of the Romanesque period [late-12thC?]; later Cistercian; modified in Manierista, Baroque periods, etc. [church remains open; the rest of the monastery now an inn [pousada]
Church Address: 1089, N308, Portugal
Site Location: Braga, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the M1248, W of the N308, in the municipality and about 10 km NE of Amares, about 25 km NE of Braga
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Historical Region: Minho
Additional Comments: traces of red paint on the upper rim of the present font -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in SIPA [ref.: IPA.00001123] [www.monumentos.pt] [accessed 3 April 2016] notes: "A ladear o guarda-vento, do lado do Evangelho, encontra-se baptistério definida por supedâneo rectangular, com pia baptismal de taça gomada, assente em plinto bojudo. Do lado oposto encontra-se pia de água-benta." The present font, made of granite,consists of a vase-shaped basin, round with a broad upper rim, and a estylised ribbed patterna on the sides and underbowl; raised on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base with a pattern of round arches at its lower end. Wooden cover consisting of a round paltform with graded mouldings, with a large fleuron finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info] for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 560826 4612496
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.6619, -8.2694
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 39′ 42.84″ N, 8° 16′ 9.84″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]