Pinhel No. 2
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Standing permission
Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - groove
Scene Description: next to the saw-tooth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - groove
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - sawtooth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
information
Scene Description: a 1708 listing of the parishes in Pinhel includes the Salvador
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a text from Costa (1708)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: close-up of one of the two notches cut off for the cover lock -- the erosion of the stone due to exposure to the elements is more noticeable here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the second of two notches cut out of the stone for an old cover hardware
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the former Capela de Santa Rita, now Posto de Turismo, where the old font is located
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Pérez (DPC), 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2015 by David Pérez (DPC) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinhel_16_ermita_by-dpc.jpg] [accessed 24 May 2017]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-4.0
view of font
Scene Description: one of two cover lock notches visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 21237PIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: [originally from the disappeared Igreja do Salvador [demolished in the 1797]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Church Location: coordinates given are for the Capela de Santa Rita, Pinhel's Posto de Turismo, located on rua de Sta. Maria, Pinhel, Guarda, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Guarda, Centro
Directions to Site: Pinhel is located at the confluence of the EM-574, EN221 and EN234, NW of Almeida, NNE of Guarda. The former chapel, now Posto de Turismo, is in the NE area of Pinhel
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese da Guarda]
Historical Region: Beira Interior
Font Location in Church: now in the Capela de Santa Rita, Posto de Turismo, Pinhel
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
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: the original Igreja do Salvador was demolished in 1797 -- the Capela in which the old font is now located was built in 1640; it serves now [April 2017] as Pinhel's Posto de Turismo
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a large wide round basin raised on a squat round base; there is a saw-tooth pattern all around the mouth of the inner well rim of the basin; the outer sides of the basin are decorated with a series of triple pointed arch-heads with foliage decoration in the spandrels; the inner well has a centre drain; two large notches were cut into the side of the font to accommodate the lock of an old cover; a groove has been cut all around to demarcate the plain underbowl. There is no cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 663505 4515681
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]