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BU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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LB01: design element - patterns - scalloped - pointed scallops
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
Image Source: digital phtotograph taken March 2011 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07471GAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 12 km E of Vitoria/Gasteiz, in the municipality of Elburgo/Bergelu
Font Notes:
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Noted in Bilbao (1994) as a medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a double roll moulding at the upper rim and a single one at the bottom of the underbowl, on a stem made of clustered columns, and a square lower base decorated with pointed scallops; the lower base is partly embeded in the modern flooring. The upper rim of the basin retains two old metal staples for the cover lock at opposite ends.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: two steaples at the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. IV: 390
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 117