Mendarozqueta / Mendarózqueta / Mendarozketa
Image copyright © Gartxoak, 2018
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Results: 1 records
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gartxoak, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2018 by Gartxoak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mendarozketa.jpg] [accessed 8 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07514MEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: at least one source gives the advocation of the church as John the Evangelist (the Diccionario... of 1802 gives the Baptist)
Church Address: A-3604, 8 / Etorbide Kalea, 11, 01196 Mendarózqueta, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
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 Notes:
Click to view
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, vol. IV: 521
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 125