Sernancelhe No. 1

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: notice the anchoring for a lock for an earlier cover on the side of the basin

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Image Source: digital photograph by Joao Roiz in [https://joao-roiz.jp/mtoyo/Sernancelhe/snc-igreja-e.html] [accessed 26 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2013 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [ww.flickr.com/photos/freecat/9582197157/] [accessed 26 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luís Sequeira, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2011 by Luís Sequeira [www.flickr.com/photos/luismsequeira/5987346152/] [accessed 26 March 2019]

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view of font - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joao Roiz, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Joao Roiz in [https://joao-roiz.jp/mtoyo/Sernancelhe/snc-igreja-e.html] [accessed 26 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22054SER
Church/Chapel: Igreja Paroquial São João Matriz de Sernancelhe
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Largo da Praça, 3640-247 Sernancelhe, Vila do Ponte, Portugal
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Viseu, Norte
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M506, E of the N226 and the Tavora river, N of the N229, 45-50 km NE of Viseu
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche or alcove off the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[altered], Late Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: Romanesque church of ca. 1172
The baptismal font in this church appears to be of a much later date than the original 12th-century church, a hemispheric basin with ribbed pattern raised on a round pedestal base decorated with torsade pattern. Noted and illustrated in Neto (2018) in a photograph from the SIPA [000082568] that shows the wall-mounted stoup from a re-cycled foliated capital on the left, and the ribbed baptismal fonty in a niche or alcove on the right..

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.905922, -7.504073
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 54′ 21.32″ N, 7° 30′ 14.66″ W
UTM: 29T 625991 4529391

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: inner partition appears modern

REFERENCES

Neto, Maria João, Arquitetura medieval portuguesa: o olhar da americana Georgiana G. King em 1935, Casal do Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 2018