Vilar de Frades

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view of church exterior - west façade - capital

part of the Manuelino-style west façade
Scene Description: part of the Manuelino-style west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © amaianos, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2010 by amaianos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leitões_(5209121187).jpg] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west façade - portal

the main portal, part of the Manuelino-style west façade
Scene Description: the main portal, part of the Manuelino-style west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manuel Anastácio, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Manuel Anastácio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portal_Vilar_de_Frades.jpg] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west façade - window

Romanesque window above the Romanesque west portal
Scene Description: Romanesque window above the Romanesque west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vilar_de_Frades_Window.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal

blocked west portal of the Romanesque church ca. 1954
Scene Description: blocked west portal of the Romanesque church ca. 1954
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, [1954?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca..1954 by Mário Novais, in the Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/3541586525/] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal

west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Scene Description: west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal_-_Vilar_de_Frades.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

five seated men in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010, a composition somewhat similar to the one carved on one of the sides of the baptismal font at Airainnes, Somme, France
Scene Description: five seated men in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010, a composition somewhat similar to the one carved on one of the sides of the baptismal font at Airainnes, Somme, France
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-5_Men.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

a bishop in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Scene Description: a bishop in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-Bishop.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

a knight in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Scene Description: a knight in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-Knight.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

a mermaid (?) in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010 [the human upper body has female breasts)
Scene Description: a mermaid (?) in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010 [the human upper body has female breasts)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-Man.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

a fiddler in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Scene Description: a fiddler in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-String.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt - detail

a standing woman in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Scene Description: a standing woman in the west portal of the Romanesque church in May 2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-Woman.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - capital

pair of capitals on the south side of the old west portal with zoomachia scenes; the one on the right appears to have a 'floating' human head in it
Scene Description: pair of capitals on the south side of the old west portal with zoomachia scenes; the one on the right appears to have a 'floating' human head in it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2010 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanesque_Portal-Capitals.JPG] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2018 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Vilar_de_Frades_(8).jpg] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2018 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Vilar_de_Frades_(4).jpg] [accessed 22 March 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22046VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Igreja de São Salvador de Vilar de Frades [aka Igreja de Vilar de Frades / Igreja do Mosteiro dos Lóios]
Church Location: Lugar do Socorro, 4750-000 Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Braga, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off the M588, on the left bank of the Cávado river, in Areias de Vilar, municipality of and 7-8 km ENE of Barcelos
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Braga
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: originally (ca. 514?) part of a Benedictine monastery; destroyed in the Arab invasion ca. 714; re-built 1070 but the church completed probably in the late-12thC (still in the Benedictine rule then, later in the Loyos Order) with many later modifications-- listed as Monumento Nacional since 1910.
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval monastery church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.540278, -8.556944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 32′ 25″ N, 8° 33′ 25″ W
UTM: 29T 536956 4598831