Gordoa / Cordoba / Gordova
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: "Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (Gordoa, Aspárrena, Álava)"
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: "Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (Gordoa, Aspárrena, Álava)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 30 March 2025 by Zarateman
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: "Jasokundeko eliza, Gordoa, Araba"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ibai1984, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2024 by Ibai1984
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: "Gordoa (Álava), iglesia de la Asunción"
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Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2012 by Zarateman
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: inside round-arch windows
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design element - architectural - window - round-arch
Scene Description: with trefoil arches inside them
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design element - architectural - columns - clustered
Scene Description: forming the stem of the base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07479GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century (?), Late Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Gordoa / Jasokundeko Andre Maria eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_la_Asunción_de_Nuestra_Señora_(Gordoa)
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: present church 16thC, modified in the 18thC, but retains the 13thC portal of an earlier building
Church Address: Mayor Kalea, 12, 01208 Gordoa, Araba, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-3012, in the municipality of Aspárrena, 8 km N of Salvatierra, about 25 km from Vitoria-Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Town/City Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordoa
Font Notes:
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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?). The entry for this church in MonumentalNet [https://www.monumentalnet.org/monumento.php?r=VI-009000700-GOR-IGL-ASU&seo=iglesia-de-la-asuncion-gordoa-asparrena-alava-pais-vasco] [accessed 17 April 2026] describes the font as Gothic: "La pila bautismal es gótica, la copa está decorada con arcos trilobulados entre flores de lis, el pie está formado por cuatro columnas apoyadas en una columna central." The present font is likely from the 16th-century re-building of the earlier, 13th-century church of which the portal remains.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 550263 4750121
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.902046, -2.384323
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 54′ 7.37″ N, 2° 23′ 3.56″ W
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, vol. V: 462
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 52, 119
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]