Araico / Araíco

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view of church interior - altar - detail

Scene Description: document on the consecration of the altar in 1879
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2007 by Pedro Novella
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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 font and cover in context

Scene Description: inside the derlict church, in December 2007
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)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07418ARA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cosme y San Damián
Church Patron Saints: Sts. Cosmas & Damian
Church Location: 09217 Araíco, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the disused church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval? / Renaissance?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Novella for his photograph of this church and font
Church Notes: church disused for many years
Font Notes:
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".

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
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994