Zuya / Zuia / Nuestra Señora de Oro
Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 December 2015)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: the only decoration on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 December 2015)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 December 2015)
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eltrotamontes, Jose Luis y Mikel, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph by Jose Luis y Mikel, Eltrotamontes [www.eltrotamontes.com/images/galeria/ALAVA_Oro/santurario_oro.jpg] [accessed 12 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 December 2015)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 December 2015)
view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the baptistery of the Santuario
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Euskadi Basque Country, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Maremy & Arantza, in Euskadi Basque Country [www.euskadi-basquecountry.org/blog/santuario-de-la-virgen-del-oro-en-zuia-el-remedio-para-las-migranas/] [accessed 12 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella
INFORMATION
FontID: 07521MUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Santuario de Santa María de Oro / Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Oro
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the N622, on a rocky hilltop called Peñas de Oro, 4 km from Murguia, 19 km NW of Vitoria, 24 km from Orduña, on the road to Bitoriano, in the Valle de Zuya/Zuia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Alava
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century[composite font?], Late Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen and to Francisco Guinea for the photographs of this font
Church Notes: original 'santuario' documented in 1138 in a donation by Doña María López to the Real Monasterio de Nájera of the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Oro, together with Nuestra Señora de Estíbaliz and the monasteries of Magnarrieta and Santa Maria de Urrechu, both located in the Valle de Zuia as well [source: www.zuia.eus/es/turismo-y-ocio/recursos-turisticos/santuario-de-nuestra-senora-de-oro/ [accessed 12 December 2015]]
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 127) as a plain medieval baptismal font. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry by López de Guereñu in Revista Estíbaliz (1968, March-April). The font is mentioned in the entry for the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Oro in the Ayuntamiento de Zuia / Zuiako Udala web page [www.zuia.eus/es/turismo-y-ocio/recursos-turisticos/santuario-de-nuestra-senora-de-oro/ [accessed 12 December 2015]: "Pila bautismal: Puede que sea de la segunda etapa de construcción. Hay constancia de que el santuario se ha utilizado para bautizar desde el XVI." Although the Santuario originates in the 12th century, the present font appears to be a 16th century replacement (if there ever was an earlier one here); it consists of a plain hemispherical basin raised on an equally plain cylindrical pedestal base and a square lower base with a moulding atop; the base may be of a later date than the basin. No cover present. As indicated in the municipal web page above, baptisms here are documented since the 16th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 55' 52" N, 2° 49' 39" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994