Zerain / Cerain / Ceráin
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of font - southwest side
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of font - northeast side
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
view of font - southeast side
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
symbol - moon?
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Scene Description: on the southwest side of the font [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit
![on the west side of the font [orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160721011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the west side of the font [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
human figure - head
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Scene Description: on the northwest side of the font [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
symbol - sun
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Scene Description: on the north side of the font [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
symbol - shield - coat of arms - town of Zerain/Cerain
![on the east side of the font [orientation is approximate]: "En campo de oro, un árbol de sinople, y a su pie un lobo andante de sable" [source: https://web.archive.org/web/20090228232807/http://fortunecity.com/victorian/prado/203/_ss.htm [accessed 21 July 2016]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160721008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the east side of the font [orientation is approximate]: "En campo de oro, un árbol de sinople, y a su pie un lobo andante de sable" [source: https://web.archive.org/web/20090228232807/http://fortunecity.com/victorian/prado/203/_ss.htm [accessed 21 July 2016]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
animal - mammal - lion - passant
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Scene Description: passant to the right, on the south side of the font [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archivo General de Gipuzkoa (DFG), 2015
Image Source: fotografía en blanco y negro, negativo en placa de vidrio , taken by Indalecio Ojanguren, Archivo General de Gipuzkoa (DFG) [AGG-GAO_OA06669] [www.guregipuzkoa.net/photo/3059] [accessed 17 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - west end
![the font standing to the left [south] side of the gallery stairs](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160721004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font standing to the left [south] side of the gallery stairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of font in context - southwest view
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - monument
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of church interior - crucifix
Scene Description: said to be 12th or 13thC, a processional cross made of copper (?) decorated with stones
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archivo General de Gipuzkoa (DFG), 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Juan San Martin, Archivo General de Gipuzkoa (DFG) [AGG-GAO_JSM05869] [http://media.guregipuzkoa.net/photo/14409/14409_m.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases
Scene Description: this part of the font may be older than the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)
view of stoup
Scene Description: one of three in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07040ZER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [base only] / 17th century[basin only] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de la Asunción
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the stairs leading to the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Address: 20214 Zerain / Ceráin, Spain
Site Location: Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the GI-3520, in the Goyerri / Goierri region, 3 km from Beasain, 50 km from San Sebastián / Donosti
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de San Sebastián
Historical Region: Goyerri / Goierri
Additional Comments: composite font? (is the base 14thC, much earlier than the 17thC basin?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the earlier 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Described in Kortadi (2000?) as a Gothic baptismal font ornamented with astral motifs. Noted with same dating in Plazaola Artola (2008?). Described as 17th-century in www.zerain.com/esp/eskaintza_andramaria.php [accessed 28 February 2009] ["pila bautismal del siglo XVII. Se trata de una pieza labrada en piedra con numerosas imágenes: el escudo de armas de Zerain, el sol, un león, un racimo de uvas, la luna..."]. The font consists of a dodecagonal basin that is plain on the upper half, but rounded and with very large deeply-carved motifs and symbols [arms of Zerain (?), sun, moon, lion, bunch of grapes, etc.] around the lower half; flat underbowl; raised on a cluster of columns, a broad central shaft with attached outer colonnettes with moulded bases that merge into a quadrangular lower base; basin and base may be of two different dates, the base older, perhaps 14th-century. The font is located by the stairs that lead to the west gallery. The present church itself dates from the 15th century, and there appears to have been a church here since the 12th-13th century, of which a metal processional cross has survived.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.011566, -2.271831
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 0' 52.77" N, 2° 16' 29.10" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: dodecagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
REFERENCES
- Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]