Alaiza / Alaitza / Halayca
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of basin - detail
!["la pila bautismal, de corte medieval, con copa y pie lisos, también se decora con pinturas que podrían relacionarse con las del ábside" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240623009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "la pila bautismal, de corte medieval, con copa y pie lisos, también se decora con pinturas que podrían relacionarse con las del ábside" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: painted on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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symbol - cross - fleurdelysée
Scene Description: painted on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 March 2014)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 March 2014)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 March 2014)
view of church interior - apse - painting
Scene Description: the 14thC murals somewhat resembling the style of the Bayeux tapestry
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 2 March 2014)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07414ALA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora [aka Santa María] / Andre Mariaren Jasokundearen eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: 13thC(?) church; very interesting 14thC mural paintings in the apse
Church Address: Alaiza Kalea, 8, 01207 Alaiza/Alaitza, Alava, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 30 02 37
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A3110, in the municipality of Iruraiz-Gauna, 27 km E of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria [formerly in the Diócesis de Calahorra]
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Salvatierra / La Llanada alavesa
Additional Comments: painted font -- damaged font: the surface of the stone appears to be in a very bad state of conservation, and deteriorating rapidly
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994) as a plain medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ALAITZA.pdf] [accessed 23 June 2024] mentions a medieval font. plain but painted with patterns/hues similar to those on the apse ["la pila bautismal, de corte medieval, con copa y pie lisos, también se decora con pinturas que podrían relacionarse con las del ábside"]. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a plain cylindrical stem and a round-to-square lower base; the basin was painted and still retains some of the detail, among which, a vine just below the upper rim, a large fleurdelisé cross and other faint foliage motifs; there is a metal staple in the upper rim. The wooden cover, round, flat and plain, is modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Francisco Guinea for their photographs of church and font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 547871 4741403
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.823691, -2.414358
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 49′ 25.29″ N, 2° 24′ 51.69″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. V: 251
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 108
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.