Gamarra Menor / Gamarragutxia

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 4

Image Source: digital image in Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_GAMARRA_MENOR.pdf] [accessed 25 July 2024]

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design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the cruciform lower base [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08403] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66095] [accessed 25 July 2024]

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view of church exterior - south portal

view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image in Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_GAMARRA_MENOR.pdf] [accessed 25 July 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval. Presenta la copa lisa y en el pie lleva cuatro columnas adosadas a un núcleo central; la basa es cruciforme con bolas en los ángulos"; Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad en Gamarra Menor".

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08403] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66095] [accessed 25 July 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07474GAM

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora / Andre Mariaren Natibitatearen eliza

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: Gamarra Menor Entitatea, 10, 01510 Gamarra Gutxia, Alava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located off the A-4008, 9 km N of Vitoria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church?

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: church chiefly 16th and 18thC with some Romanesque remains

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptismal font in this church is described and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66095] [accessed 25 July 2024] "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval. Presenta la copa lisa y en el pie lleva cuatro columnas adosadas a un núcleo central; la basa es cruciforme con bolas en los ángulos"; Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad en Gamarra Menor". Described in Bilbao (1994: 118) as a medieval baptismal font of the late 12th or early 13th century; the plain hemispherical basin is raised on a base made of a central cylindrical column and four constructional shafts; the lower base is cruciform, ornamented with ball motif at the angles. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria and in López de Guereñu. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_GAMARRA_MENOR.pdf] [accessed 25 July 2024] as a rather plain medieval baptismal font of stone, a round basin raised on a clustered-column pedestal and a square lower base: "se conserva en la iglesia una pila bautismal de época medieval. Está colocada sobre un cuadrado y tiene la base cruciforme, con volutas en los ángulos. A cada lado le corresponde una de las cuatro columnas adosadas a un núcleo central, que forman el pie de apoyo a la copa. Toda ella, carente de ornamentación" [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.878372, -2.657192

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 42.14″ N, 2° 39′ 25.89″ W

UTM: 30T 527997 4747365

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968

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: 2024-07-25 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.

López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962