Ganfei
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
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Results: 14 records
view of font
view of basin
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_do_Convento_de_Ganfei.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior in context - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JCNazza, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2012 by JCNazza [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganfei_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
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 - south view
view of church interior - capital
view of church interior - capital
view of church interior - capital
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
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 - 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
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21256GAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja Paroquial do Divino Salvador [originally Convento de São Salvador de Ganfei ]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ [originally St. Ganfei. aka Ganfried]
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
Church Address: 150808 Ganfei, Valença, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Site Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/] for his photographs of this church and present font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 531235 4654252
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.03969, -8.622608
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 2′ 22.88″ N, 8° 37′ 21.39″ W