Gordoa

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: inside round-arch windows

B02: design element - architectural - window - round-arch

Scene Description: with trefoil arches inside them

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 4

Scene Description: around the stem of the base

INFORMATION

FontID: 07479GOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located on the A3012, 8 km N of Salvatierra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Described in Bilbao (1994: 52, 119) as a medieval baptismal font; the basin is ornamented with blind trefoil arches framed inside a round-arch windows, as well as hanging fleur-de-lis motifs; the stem of the base consists of a column with four mouildings. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994
Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]