Almeida
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: is the side drain original or was it added to use the font as a trough or planter?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2018 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: notice the large notch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2018 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018
Image Source: digital image in SIPA [ww.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4815] [accessed 7 October 2018]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018
Image Source: digital image in SIPA [ww.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4815] [accessed 7 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Direção-Geral do Património Cultural _ Ministério da Cultura, 2018
Image Source: digital image in SIPA [ww.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4815] [accessed 7 October 2018]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced a/p Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2018 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2018 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 21832ALM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Convento de Nossa Senhora do Loreto / Igreja Paroquial de Almeida / Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Candeias
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Rua Joaquim Carvalho Santos 29-31, 6350-128 Almeida, Guarda, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Guarda, Centro
Directions to Site: Located off the N332 / M604, ENE of Guarda capital, 8 km W of the Spanish border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese da Guarda
Historical Region: Beira Alta
Font Location in Church: Outside, by the W entranceway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info] for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: convent of Franciscan nuns founded mid-16thC; modified 17th, 18th, 19th, 20thC; became parish church 1840 [SIPA IPA.00004815]
Font Notes:
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Baptisal font, a monolithic hemispherical font now raised on a later base outside the church; the font appears medieval and belong to the period when the town wes recovered from the Moors and a fortress built. The present church dates only to the mid-16th century, but there must have been an earlier church, or a castle chapel, in this town.
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 676845 4510413
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining