Galarreta
Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: around the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]
design element - motifs - roll moulding - 8
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: an interesting pairing of the two portals -- photograph taken two years before the collapse of the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galarreta_-_Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Asuncion_04.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galarreta_-_Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Asuncion_06.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: the tower collapsed five years after this photograph, in July 2014
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Unai Fdz. de Betoño, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 June 2009 by Unai Fdz. de Betoño [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galarretako_elizaren_hondakinak.JPG] [accessed 19 June 2020]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galarreta_-_Iglesia_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_la_Asuncion_02.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07472GAL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción / Galarretako eliza [in ruins since 2014]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Abajo Auzoa, 2, 01208 Galarreta, Alava / Araba, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 30 02 37
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located on the A3012, just W of Galarreta, 9 km N of Salvatierra
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Llanada Alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church Notes: medieval church; modified 16th and 18th; 18thC tower of the semi-abandoned church caved in 10 July 2014; in ruins thereafter
Described in Bilbao (1994: 26, 117-118) as a medieval baptismal font, the basin is plain but for a moulding at the upper rim; the stem of the base is a cluster of twelve columns, three per side and is ornamented with eight mouldings; the lower base is square and ornamented with blind arches. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994