Mendarozqueta / Mendarózqueta / Mendarozketa
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07514MEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: A-3604, 8 / Etorbide Kalea, 11, 01196 Mendarózqueta, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located on the A3604, in the municipality of Cigoitia / Zigoitia, about 12 km NNW of Vitoria (access from either the N240 or the N622)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church Notes: at least one source gives the advocation of the church as John the Evangelist (the Diccionario... of 1802 gives the Baptist)
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 125) as a medieval baptismal font with a plain basin. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994