Melledes

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 Evangelista de Melledes. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval. La copa es lisa y se apea en un pie circular con basa ensanchada en los ángulos". Described in Bilbao (1994: 125) as a plain medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in López de Guereñu. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a tound pedestal base and a round-to-square lower base; there is a damaged moulding atop the cylindrical pedestal base, and there are knobs or spurs at the angles of the square lower base, otherwise the rest is plain. There is no cover present but there is metal staple in the upper rim of the basin, evidence of anchorage from an earlier cover.