Onraita / Errobeta / Erroeta / Honraita
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Results: 12 records
B01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - intersecting arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B02:
design element - motifs - wheel - beaded-tape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B03:
design element - motifs - sawtooth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B04:
design element - motifs - zigzag
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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BU01:
design element - motifs - zigzag
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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LB01:
design element - patterns - chequered
Scene Description: on the short columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora, Onraita-Erroeta (lateral)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mentxuwiki, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2024 by Mentxuwiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_la_Natividad_de_Nuestra_Señora,_Onraita-Erroeta_(lateral).jpg] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora, Onraita-Erroeta"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 August 2024 by Mentxuwiki https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_la_Natividad_de_Nuestra_Señora,_Onraita-Erroeta.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Onraita en Álava [...] Vista frontal de una pila butismal de sección cuadrada y decoración de garras con un pie de cuatro baquetones adosados a un núcleo cilíndrico y decorado con motivos geométricos en el bisel. La copa está totalmente ornamentada con temas enraizados en el arte popular; mostrando dientes de sierra, banda en zig-zag y palmetas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 02773] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/50802] [accessed 10 August 2024]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2024
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ONRAITA_ERROETA.pdf] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
INFORMATION
FontID: 07527ONR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora / Andre Maria Birjinaren Jaiotzaren eliza
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Location: San Juan Kalea, 7, 01129 Onraita, Araba, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 41 01 89
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-3114, 2 km N of Róitegui, 35-40 km ESE of Vitoria
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla Campezo-Montaña Alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Róitegui and San Román de San Millán
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for the photographs of this font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Church Notes: present church late-16thC; modified 18th and 19thC
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 10 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Onraita en Álava [...] Vista frontal de una pila butismal de sección cuadrada y decoración de garras con un pie de cuatro baquetones adosados a un núcleo cilíndrico y decorado con motivos geométricos en el bisel. La copa está totalmente ornamentada con temas enraizados en el arte popular; mostrando dientes de sierra, banda en zig-zag y palmetas". Described in Bilbao (1994) as a medieval baptismal font of the 13th century; the sides of the basin are ornamented with a range of motifs that include wheels, fleur-de-lis like motifs, arcades, zigzag, saw-tooth, etc. Bilbao (ibid.) speaks of popular traditions merged with Mudéjar influence: intersecting arcades, radiating discs, chrismons, etc., and suggests the fonts at nearby Róitegui and San Román de San Millán as cognates; she cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, López de Guereñu and Portilla as sources. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ONRAITA_ERROETA.pdf] [accessed 10 August 2024]: "bella pila bautismal que se fecha en pleno siglo xiii. La copa está totalmente decorada, con motivos dispuestos en bandas superpuestas. La superior muestra dientes de sierra; debajo hay palmetas inscritas en semicírculos y decoradas con punteado. Aparece un ancho friso con círculos con seis radios decorados con punteado, con sendas líneas horizontales de dientes de sierra biselados arriba y abajo. Entre dos de estos círculos asoma una fortificación con dos
puertas en la base, triángulos, dos ventanas y la culminación en almenas. Debajo hay de nuevo una banda con la decoración de palmetas en semicírculos, dientes de sierra biselados y otra línea de dientes de sierra planos, como los de la parte superior de la copa. El pie de la pila consta de un núcleo cilíndrico central ajedrezado, con cuatro columnillas adosadas decoradas con elementos geométricos en bisel. Esta pila se encuadra dentro del mismo taller que las pilas de San Román, de San Millán y Róitegui, con claro horror vacui, geometrismo decorativista, muy propio del
románico popular de esta zona, así como con influencias cistercienses, mudéjares y orientalizantes."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.795272,
-2.396286
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 47′ 42.98″ N,
2° 23′ 46.63″ W
UTM: 30T 549371 4738257
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. Accessed: 2024-08-10 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962
Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983