Azpeitia / Garmendia de Iraurgi / Salvatierra de Iraurgi / San Sebastian de Soreasu / San Sebastián de Soreasu in Azpeitia

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view of font

a late font used for regular baptisms; it is located by the chancel steps
Scene Description: a late font used for regular baptisms; it is located by the chancel steps
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 Fberuary 2016 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azpeitia_-_Iglesia_de_San_Sebastián_de_Soreasu_47.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of font

the upper part of the basin is hidden under the lower end of the canopy of the wooden cover
Scene Description: the upper part of the basin is hidden under the lower end of the canopy of the wooden cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, [s.d.]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1144616.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Iglesia parroquial de San Sebastián de Soreasu. Pila bautismal [...] Ubicación: Baptisterio Siglo XV Estilo: Gótico"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia parroquial de San Sebastián de Soreasu. Pila bautismal [...] Ubicación: Baptisterio Siglo XV Estilo: Gótico"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1144616.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - west tower

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © pere prlpz, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by pere prlpz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soreasuko_San_Sebastian_eliza_-_església_de_Sant_Sebastià_de_Soreasu_P1270553.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of stoup in context

one of several in this church; this one is located in an outside grotto
Scene Description: one of several in this church; this one is located in an outside grotto
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2013 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azpeitia_-_Iglesia_de_San_Sebastián_de_Soreasu_16.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of stoup

one of several in this church
Scene Description: one of several in this church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 Fberuary 2016 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azpeitia_-_Iglesia_de_San_Sebastián_de_Soreasu_58.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of cover - finial

The saint acknowledges this as the vessel of his baptism
Scene Description: The saint acknowledges this as the vessel of his baptism
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 Fberuary 2016 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azpeitia_-_Iglesia_de_San_Sebastián_de_Soreasu_23.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of stoup

[cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 Fberuary 2016 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azpeitia_-_Iglesia_de_San_Sebastián_de_Soreasu_19.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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view of cover

wooden cover of the rim-buffet type, but almost a canopy as the bottom of the cover hides practically 2/3 of the basin; the finial is a statue of St Ignatius of Loyola, who is supposed to have been baptised in this font
Scene Description: wooden cover of the rim-buffet type, but almost a canopy as the bottom of the cover hides practically 2/3 of the basin; the finial is a statue of St Ignatius of Loyola, who is supposed to have been baptised in this font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, [s.d.]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1144616.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02217SEB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Sebastián de Soreasu / Soreasuko San Sebastian eliza [originally the church of Knights Templar monastery?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sebastian
Church Notes: church said to have been part of a monastery of the Kinghts Templar; present church is 16th-18th chiefly
Church Address: Soreasu Auzoa, 20730 Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Spain
Site Location: Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Soreasu is a barrio of Azpeitia; Azpeitia is located at the confluence of the GI-631 GI-2634 and GI-2635, 40 km SW of San Sebastián
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de San Sebastián
Additional Comments: recycled font lid: the present ornate Baroque cover is made of wood and zinc (the original silver covering was looted in 1794 by invading French troops). -- fame person font: Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order was baptised in it -- disappeared font? (if the medieval church was founded by the Knights Templar, its font is not accounted for)
Font Notes:
According to Elias Odriozola, 1993 (111-116): this is the font in which, according to tradition, St. Ignatius of Loyola was baptised. The font is made of sandstone but the ornate Baroque cover is made of wood and zinc (the original silver covering was looted in 1794 by invading French troops). The dome cover is made of the same materials imitating marble is topped by a wooded image of St. Ignatius. Noted and illustrated by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1144616.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2020]: "Pila bautismal [...] Ubicación: Baptisterio Siglo XV Estilo: Gótico". One of several fonts and stoups kept at this church.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 559750 4781721
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.1859, -2.26473
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 11′ 9.24″ N, 2° 15′ 53.03″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type with opening panels for access to interior; finial statue of St Ignatius

REFERENCES

  • Albisu Andrade, Patxi, "Los 7 hermanos Amenabar de Azpeitia: mercaderes con los Reinos de Indias", 58 (2002-1), Boletín de la Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País/Euskalerriaren Adiskideen Elkartea, 2002, pp. 31; p. 31
  • Cuesta Eceiza, Arantza, "Gure Gipuzkoa"
  • Elías Odriozola, Imanol, Iglesia parroquial de San Sebastián de Soreasu, de Azpeitia, San Sebastián: Caja Gipuzkoa, 1993, p. 111-116