Araico / Araíco
Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2007
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2018)
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view of font and cover in context
view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: Saints Cosmas and Damian, patrons of the church, in the mid-18thC retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2007 by Pedro Novella
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2018)
view of church interior - sacristy - detail
Scene Description: the furnishings of the disused church; here the cabinets of the sacristy in their decrepitude
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2007 by Pedro Novella
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2018)
view of church interior - altar - detail
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07418ARA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval? / Renaissance?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cosme y San Damián
Font Location in Church: Inside the disused church
Church Patron Saint(s): Sts. Cosmas & Damian
Church Notes: church disused for many years
Church Address: 09217 Araíco, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CL-127 and BU-744 crossroads, in the Condado de Treviño, 2 km SW of Treviño itself, 16 km ENE of Miranda de Ebro, about 100 km NW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria [formerly Calahorra]
Historical Region: Condado de Treviño
Additional Comments: disused font (the church has been disused for many years)
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 109) as a medieval baptismal font with a plain octagonal basin. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The article on this hamlet in the Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia [http://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/araico/ar-1994/] [accessed 12 December 2018] describes the church here as "Pequeña y coqueta" [=cute little church]; it notes parts of the church as characteristic of the Baroque, a retable of the mid-18th century, and praises the medieval font in it: "uno de los elementos de ajuar más interesantes desde el punto de vista histórico y artístico, una bonita pila bautismal medieval. Con pie octogonal con baquetón y fuste de la misma sección, se coloca una gran copa también de ocho lados decorados con paneles lisos pero marcados con una incisión." The basin has a metal brace around the upper sides, and retains one of the metal staples of the upper rim, and has a wooden cover, round and flat, with handles; appears modern. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 13 February 2021] notes: "La iglesia, dedicada a San Cosme y San Damián [...] la pila bautismal es de vaso, octogonal, sin decoración".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Novella for his photograph of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 518786 4729717
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. II: 57
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 109