Eguileta / Egileta / Gelhegieta / Hygueleta
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_EGILETA.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08388] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60688] [accessed 27 July 2024]
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human figure - face, head or mask - 4
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08388] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60688] [accessed 27 July 2024]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Román, Egileta (Álava)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 Decembre 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eguileta_-_San_Roman_04.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 July 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Román, Egileta (Álava)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 9 Decembre 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eguileta_-_San_Roman_02.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 July 2024]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08387] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66059] [accessed 27 July 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2024
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_EGILETA.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
INFORMATION
FontID: 07456EGU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román / San Roman eliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus (?)
Church Location: Elizalde Kalea, 6, 01193 Egileta, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located on the A132, in the municipality of Alegría-Dulantzi, 14 km ESE of Vitoria, just N of the Puerto de Azáceta / Azatzeta
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Salvatierra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
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
Church Notes: present church mainly 18thC re-building of an earlier Romanesque building
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66059] [accessed 27 July 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Román de Eguileta. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal románica con decoraciones en la basa"; a detailed photograph of the base in the same source identifies a mascaron on each corner of the lower base: "la basa de la pila bautismal románica; presenta cuatro mascarones en cada uno [sic] de los ángulos y fuste liso". Described in Bilbao (1994: 115) as a medieval baptismal font; ornamentation only on the lower base. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry in López de Guereñu. Listed and illustrated in the entery for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_EGILETA.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2024]: "Se conserva bajo el coro la pila bautismal, de copa lisa sobre pilar cilíndrico sin decorar, pero con una basa con motivos incisos, geométricos o vegetales dentro de semicírculos, así como cuatro mascarones en las esquinas."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.809764, -2.5342
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48′ 35.15″ N, 2° 32′ 3.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
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: 2024-07-27 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962