Ganfei

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Standing permission
Results: 14 records
view of base
view of basin
view of church exterior - west façade
view of church exterior in context - south view
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: the former monastery church seen across a vinyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2011 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viñedos_y_viñas_(6424736595).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior in context - southwest end
view of church interior - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais, in the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [CFT015.391.ic] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_Matriz_de_Ganfei,_Valença,_Portugal_(3607243438).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church interior - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais, in the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [CFT015.391.ic] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_Matriz_de_Ganfei,_Valença,_Portugal_(3607243439).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church interior - capital
view of church interior - capital
view of church interior - capital
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2009 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_São_Salvador_de_Ganfei_(3418286709).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - south aisle - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_São_Salvador_de_Ganfei_(3424483068).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 21256GAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Igreja Paroquial do Divino Salvador [originally Convento de São Salvador de Ganfei ]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ [originally St. Ganfei. aka Ganfried]
Church Location: Ganfei, Valença, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the EN101 [Ecopista do Minho] in the municipality of Valença, and NE of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo
Historical Region: Alto Minho
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/] for his photographs of this church and present font
Church Notes: Benedictine monastery [Convento] church 12thC may have been built on an earlier Visigothic monastery site destroyed ca. 1000 by Al-Mansur [Almanzor / Almançor]; re-built 1018; modified 16th, 18thC
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church appears to be a composite object, the basin 17th- or 18th-century perhaps. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century (?) church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.03969, -8.622608
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 2′ 22.88″ N, 8° 37′ 21.39″ W
UTM: 29T 531235 4654252