Longos Vales No. 1
Image copyright © Joost Limburgh, 2017
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Results: 14 records
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, north side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
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design element - patterns - geometric - triangular
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburgh, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
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design element - patterns - geometric - triangular
Scene Description: all around the underbowl surface
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburgh, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_São_João_dos_Longos_Vales_(461810543).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - apse - detail
Scene Description: capitals and corbels of the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_São_João_dos_Longos_Vales_(461810543).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca. 1954 by Mário Novais, in Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [[CFT015.379.ic] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igreja_do_Mosteiro_de_Longos_Vales,_Monção,_Portugal_(3595104251).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburgh, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburgh
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lucas Martínez Farra, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2014 by Lucas Martínez Farra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longos_Vales,_4950,_Portugal_-_panoramio_(4).jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - southeast end
Scene Description: the apse and east end of the church visible here behind the monastery main building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Costa, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2015 by José Costa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_e_Igreja_de_Longos_Vales.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2017]
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view of church interior - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2017 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - stump
Scene Description: in pairs, all around
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21257LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Sã João Baptista de Longos Vales
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, W end, N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: original church probably pre-11thC; Mosteiro de Longos Vales founded 12thC by Augustinian regular canons; reformed by the Jesuits in 1551
Church Address: Longos Vales, Monção, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Site Location: Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the EN304, in the municipality of Monção, 8 km from it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Viana do Castelo
Historical Region: Alto Minho
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? (the one from the original pre-11thC church, or/and the one from the 12thC church of the Augustinian monastery church here)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font and a holy-water stoup are mentioned in the SIPA entry [IPA.00002190] with suggested date in the 16th century in this former monastery church [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=2190] [accessed 11 June 2017]: "A pia de água benta junto ao portal axial, de pé, e a pia baptismal deverão datar do séc. 16 [...] No sub-coro, com guarda-vento de madeira, tem a ladear o portal, no lado da Epístola, pia de água benta, e, no do Evangelho, baptistério sobrelevado por degrau, cerrado por grade de ferro forjado, com motivos geométricos e vegetalistas, com pia baptismal de aresta boleada e taça decorada com motivos geométricos [...] A pia de água benta do sub-coro, tem taça circular, exteriormente decorada com torçal a meio e motivos tipo cabeças de cravos, sobre pé paralelepipédico." The font itself, carved in granite, consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with sides decorated with a series of triangular divisions framed between a flat moulding at the top and a rope moulding below; the inside of the basin has a vertical partition but it appears to be a later addition cemented to the inner sides and bottom; the triangular partitions continue on the underbowl; raised on a round pedestal base that has pairs of leg-like motifs at the bottom. No font cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/] for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 545966 4655601
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.051119, -8.444525
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 3′ 4.03″ N, 8° 26′ 40.29″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: vertical partition not original