Galarreta

Results: 7 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

[cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - roll moulding

around the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: around the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - roll moulding - 8

[cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - detail

an interesting pairing of the two portals -- photograph taken two years before the collapse of the tower
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

the tower collapsed five years after this photograph, in July 2014
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

INFORMATION

FontID: 07472GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30T 551706 4749905

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994