Castelo Mendo No. 2
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
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Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - varied - 4
Scene Description: one appears to be a scroll, another a ball, etc.
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin
Scene Description: the damaged upper rim, other than the obvious damage, shows the notch taken off to fit an earlier cover lock
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a 2005 photograph, in SIPA [SIPA FOTO.00686361] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1585] [accessed 24 May 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 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, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a 2005 photograph, in SIPA [SIPA FOTO.00686372] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1585] [accessed 24 May 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a 2005 photograph, in SIPA [SIPA FOTO.00686386] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1585] [accessed 24 May 2017]
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view of font
Scene Description: disused and much damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the ruined nave of the abandoned church, north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 21235CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja Paroquial de Castelo Mendo / Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Maey
Church Location: 6355-051 Castelo Mendo, Almeida, Guarda, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Guarda, Centro
Directions to Site: Located off the A25-N16 crossroads, in the municipality of Almeida, SSE of Pinhel, NNE of Sabugal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese da Guarda
Historical Region: Terras de Riba-Côa, Beira Interior Norte
Font Location in Church: By the portal of the ruined church
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[composite font?], late Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info] for his photographs of, and for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: church probably 1229; documented 1320/1321; abandoned late-19thC?
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font and holy-water stoup noted in SIPA [IPA.00001585] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=1585] [accessed 24 May 2017]: "No espaço junto ao portal observa-se uma pia de água benta semicircular e, no lado oposto, jaz a pia baptismal de forma semiesférica". The baptismal font is located in the ruins of this church, disused since the 19th century; the font appears to be a composite object: fragment of a roughly hemispherical font that appears devoid of decoration and has most of its upper rim missing; there is a large notch where the lock of an old font cover would have fitted; raised on a moulded stem and a round-to-square lower base with decorated angles. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 673518 4495574
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]