Martioda
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07511MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Urrialdo [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km WNW of Vitoria, off the same road that leads to Hueto Abajo and Hueto Arriba
Font Location in Church: [reported ca, 1994 among the ruins of the "ermita"]
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 125) as a medieval baptismal font now [i.e., ca. 1994] found among the ruins of the abandoned church; the basin is described as plain and the base has four mouldings around a central column. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria.
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