Fontarcada No. 1 / Fonte Arcada
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a very thin moulding at the bottom of the underbowl -- note that this object is a single piece of granit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of basin in context - detail
Scene Description: the blocked drain hole
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the garden outside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 21767FON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Salvador [aka Igreja de Fonte Arcada (Lugar do Mosteiro)]
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: Lugar do Mosteiro, 4830-198 Fontarcada, Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Braga, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N205, 2-3 km E of, and in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, ENE of Braga
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Font Location in Church: outside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for his photographs of this object
Church Notes: originally the site of a Benedictine monastery, 'Mosteiro beneditino de São Salvador', founded in 1067; the present church probably early-12thC [source: www.igespar.pt/pt/patrimonio/pesquisa/geral/patrimonioimovel/detail/70232/ [accessed 30 April 2013]]
Font Notes:
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An located now in the small garden outside the church; it is a monolithic block with a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a flat moulding at the upper rim, and a round stem that would have probably been connected to a base originally. The basin is irregular, of crude workmanship; the inner basin does have a drain hole but it has been blocked. It may have been used as a baptismal font in the former monastery church in earlier times [NB: cf. Index entry for Fontarcada No. 2 for the present font in this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.579167, -8.245556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 34′ 45″ N, 8° 14′ 44″ W
UTM: 29T 562891 4603328
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: drain hole now blocked; no lining