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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Peñako Andramariaren Eliza. Faidu. Urizaharra (Araba)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ebaki, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 25 August 2018 by Ebaki [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Peñako_Andramariaren_Eliza_6.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 01261] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/47770] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: M/A
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ebaki, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 25 August 2018 by Ebaki [digital photograph 25 August 2018 by Ebaki [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faido_-_Ermita_de_la_Virgen_de_la_Peña_123.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2024]] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "PILA BAUTISMAL DE LA ERMITA DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA PEÑA DE FAIDO EN LA LOCALIDAD DE PEÑACERRADA"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eusko Ikaskuntza, 2024
Image Source: digital image [010618.jpg] of an anonymous photograph in Eusko Ikaskuntza [https://www.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/documentary-collection/multimedia-gallery/mu-81803/#] [accessed 10 August 2024].
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07466FAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de la Virgen de la Peña / Santuario de Santa María de la Peña / Faiduko Haitzeko Andra Mariaren eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The church is partially located in an artificial cave
Church Address: Virgen de la Peña Kalea, 3, 01216 Faido/Faidu, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the BU-741, in the municipality of Peñacerrada, about 25 km SSE of Vitoria
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla Montaña Alavesa
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font in this church is reported in Madoz (1847): "ermita (Nuestra Señora de la Peña), en donde existe la pila bautismal". Tub-shaped baptismal font illustrated in Eusko Ikaskuntza [https://www.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/documentary-collection/multimedia-gallery/mu-81803/#] [accessed 10 August 2024]. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1994) as a baptismal font perhaps of the pre-Romanesque period; it is bucket-shaped, the main part raised over a squat lower base to which it now appears cemented; the only ornamentation appears to be a scotia or indentation that runs all around the basin, about halfway down, more or less level with the depth of the inner well. Bilbao (ibid.) refers to the monolithic fonts of the Cerdagne and Roussillon studied in Delcor, but suggests that the font at Faido has more in common with the font at Perpignan dated to the 11th century in Delcor [cf. entry in this Index], and adds that the Faido font may be older [NB: the font at Perpignan is actually a re-purposed Roman colum]. Further to Bilbao's comparison of this font with the one at Perpignan, neither the style, nor the material, execution or size makes such comparison fathomable. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria and in Portilla.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 528337 4723683
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.66509, -2.65422
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 39′ 54.32″ N, 2° 39′ 15.19″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Depth: 28.5 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 57 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1994: 22, 46) *[Bilbao (ibid.) informs that the inner well is excavated to about half of the height of the font, which she measures at 57 cm]
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. II: 96
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 2-23, 46-48, 101, 116-117 and fig. 22
- Madoz, Pascual, Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar, Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de P. Madoz y L. Sagasti [imprint varies on vols. 6-16], 1845-1850, t. VIII, p. 11
- Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983