Atauri / Atahuri
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07432ATA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 18th century (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Atauri / Jasokundeko Andre Maria eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: church documented 1257
Church Address: 01128 Atauri, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A132, in the municipality of Arraia-Maeztu, about 30 km SE of Vitoria
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de la Montaña alavesa
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the on e from the 13thC church here)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atauri
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 112) as a medieval baptismal font: the basin is but for a roll moulding at the upper rim; the base has a concave profile. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an 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_ATAURI.pdf] [accessed 16 May 2025] does not mention a font in it, which probably means it is of a later date than the 13th-century building. The present font consists of a roughly-hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square base. It is probably 16th-century or later.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco Guinea for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 546387 4731358
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.733333, -2.433333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 44′ 0″ N, 2° 26′ 0″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. V: 333
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 112