Baroja / Barolha / Varoiia

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animal - mammal - lion? - head -

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: around the lower base; now damaged

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

design element - patterns - piping

Scene Description: on the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: at the top of the stem of the base is a faded pattern that appears to have been a row of scallops

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

human figure - head

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Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalle de uno de los mascarones del pie cilíndrico de la pila bautismal; se representa una cabeza de animal, posiblemente un león [...] pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Baroja" [NB: seen from this angle, and damaged as it is, it resembles a tonsured head]

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08364] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60672] [accessed 6 August 2024]

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Image Source: digital photograph 29 June 2017 by Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Assar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barojako_eliza.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Novella's nephew

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella (e-mail of 20 September 2021)

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Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BAROJA.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08363] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66024] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: notice the large repair area on the right side of the bain upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph 30 October 2023 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

INFORMATION

FontID: 07435BAR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: c/ Real, 17, 01211 Baroja, Alava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A-4129, E of the BU-750, in the municipality and 4 km NE of Peñacerrada-Urizaharra, 24 km S of Vitoria

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Cuadrilla Campezo-Montaña Alavesa / Kanpezuko-Arabako Mendialdea

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: the base of the font at Arluzea? [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico, to Kike Lombardero and to Pedro Novella's nephew for their photographs of this font, and to Mikel Unanue for his help in documenting this font.

Church Notes: present church chiefly 16th-century re-building of a Romanesque church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 30 July 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Baroja. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal románica. La taza es un recipiente semiesférico y lo más interesante es su pie cilíndrico decorado con cuatro masacarones, de los que dos han desaparecido. Los otros dos parecen ser un rostro humano y un animal parecido a un león, por lo que podría representar el Tetramorfos". Described in Bilbao (1994: 112) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period notable for having a set of heads on the base, one on each side: one is human, another is an animal. probably a lion, and the other two are missing. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BAROJA.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2024]: "En el interior de la iglesia de San Martín, de Baroja, a los pies del templo, bajo el coro, se conserva una pila bautismal románica. Está compuesta por una copa semiesférica, lisa, rematada la boca en bisel por su parte externa. El pie, cilíndrico, muestra una moldura festoneada en la parte superior y cuatro nervios longitudinales, coincidiendo con las esquinas de la basa cuadrada, sobre la que descansa el conjunto. En dos de los ángulos de la basa aún se puede apreciar la representación de dos cabezas: una representa un ser humano y la otra podría ser de un león. Tal vez se trate del tema del Tetramorfos, o de los Cuatro Vivientes, también representado, y allí mejor conservado, en la basa de la pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín, en Arluzea." No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 525520 4723551

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968

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

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. Accessed: 2024-07-30 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.