Sernancelhe No. 2

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design element - motifs - foliage
INFORMATION
FontID: 22055SER
Object Type: Stoup
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, wall mounted
Century and Period: 7th - 8th century [re-cycled], Visigothic [altered?]
Church Notes: Romanesque church of ca. 1172
Font Notes:
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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. Mounted on the wall near the font is a former capital [cf. infra] of unknown origin now used as holy-water stoup [http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/static/data/cache/f8/3c/f83cd79f037965e2533122de6c578ea0.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2019]; the SIPA entry [IPA.00004287] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4287] [accessed 26 March 2019] notes: "Provável capitel visigótico utilizado com pia de água benta."
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: capital
Basin Exterior Shape: capital
REFERENCES
Neto, Maria João, Arquitetura medieval portuguesa: o olhar da americana Georgiana G. King em 1935, Casal do Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 2018