Sesimbra No. 1 / Cempsibriga
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design element - motifs - groove
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font in context - detail
Scene Description: notice the partition of the basin interior; original or done at a later date?
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view of stoup
Scene Description: located at the west end of the nave
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view of stoup - detail
Scene Description: the multiple-basin stoup at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Georges Jansoone, 2006
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21248SES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Castelo [originally Santa Maria do Castelo]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: R. Nossa Senhora do Castelo 11, Castelo de Sesimbra, 2970 Sesimbra, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Setúbal, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Sesimbra, at the foothills of the Serra da Arrábida, near the Setúbal Bay and the mouth of the Sado River
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Setúbal
Historical Region: Estremadura
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 16th - 18th century
Church Notes: original transitional (Romanesque-Gothic) church 1165; parish church in 1388; present church 1721; ruined in the 1950s+; restored 1965; again 2001 and re-opened to the cult
Font Notes:
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The present font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin that is plain except for a single groove or scotia below the upper rim; raised on a round spaling pedestal base; both basin and base are made of jasper (?). No cover present. The material of the font is described in Kullberg, Coelho & Prego's "Geological and Cultural Routes of the Arrabida Breccia", STRATI 2013 (2017: 307) as 'Arrábida marble' or 'Arrábida Breccia', a type of jasper (?) [aka "mármore da Arrábida"]. The font may date as late as the 1721 restoration. [NB: we have no information on the font of the ca. 1165 church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 29S 491152 4255134