Gauna / Iruraitz-Gauna
Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
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Results: 7 records
view of font
Scene Description: suspiciously composite?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font - base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: " Iglesia de San Esteban de Gauna (Iruraitz-Gauna, Álava)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zarateman, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2024 by Zarateman
Copyright Instructions: CC0 1.0 / PD
view of stoup
Scene Description: "Iglesia de San Esteban de Gauna (Iruraitz-Gauna, Álava)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zarateman, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2024 by Zarateman
Copyright Instructions: CC0 1.0 / PD
human figure - face, head or mask - 4?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the inner partition of the well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hilario Garcia de Jalon, 2025
Image Source: screencapture from a 9 June 2025 YouTube video iglesia de San Esteban en Gauna(Araba) by Hilario Garcia de Jalon [gauna iglesia san esteba] [accessed 16 April 2026]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07476GAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century (?), Late Medieval?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Font Location in Church: Inside, at the W end, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: Gauna Kalea, 6, 01193 Gauna, Araba, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-4135, S of the A-3110, 3-4 km SE of Alegría / Dulantzi
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Additional Comments: altered / modififed font (the inner well partition)
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 118) as a plain medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in López de Guereñu. The font of stone is located in its enclosed chapel beneath the west gallery; it consists of a roughly-hemispherical basin of late-Gothic appearance [16thC?]; the inner well of the basin has been divided into two sections, surely a later modification; there are metal staple from an old cover but none is present now; it is raised on a pedestal base of clustered columns with capitals and bases; the bases are just moulded but each capital has a human head or mask surrounded by foliage, all very battered.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 541273 4741551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.825408, -2.49506
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 49′ 31.47″ N, 2° 29′ 42.22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 118
- López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962, p. 243