Guerena / Gereña / Guereña

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Results: 9 records

LB01: animal - claw

Scene Description: on the lower base [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - ball or knob - 4

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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08407] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66016] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08407] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66016] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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design element - motifs - semicircle

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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08407] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66016] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista (Guereña, Vitoria, Álava)"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guereña_-_Iglesia_de_San_Juan_Evangelista_08.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista (Guereña, Vitoria, Álava)"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guereña_-_Iglesia_de_San_Juan_Evangelista_10.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista (Guereña, Vitoria, Álava)"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guereña_-_Iglesia_de_San_Juan_Evangelista_12.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Juan Evangelista (Guereña, Vitoria, Álava)"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guereña_-_Iglesia_de_San_Juan_Evangelista_06.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08407] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66016] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07481GUE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Evangelista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Ent. Gereña, 11, 01196 Guereña, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-3302, 12 km WNW of Vitoria, near the airport
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: church chiefly late-16thC
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 30 July 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Juan de Guereña. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval; presenta copa lisa y basa de garras". Described in Bilbao (1994: 119) as a medieval baptismal font; plain basin; claw motifs on the lower base volume. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, in López de Guereñu and another in Revista Estíbaliz (February 1959). The entry for this church in the Auñamendi Eusko Entzklopedia [https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/guerena/ar-53860-40779/] [accessed 30 July 2024] reports a medieval baptismal font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.885556, -2.739444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53′ 8″ N, 2° 44′ 22″ W
UTM: 30T 521277 4748139

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round cover with a finial; appears to be made of thin metal

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994
López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962