Paganos / Páganos

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07530PAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: 16thC church
Church Address: Pl. Laguardia, 4, 01309 Paganos, Álava, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 60 00 41
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A124, 2-3 km NW of Laguardia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Laguardia
Font Notes:
Described in Bilbao (1994: 35, 128) as a baptismal font of the 16th century, its basin ornamented with striated spiral motifs in the Renaissance style; reported in the same source (ibid.) as one of the oldest of the Rioja Alavesa region. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Described in Arriola Loyola (1996: 97) as a fine baptismal font of the 16th century ornamented with striated lines and enclosed in a fine iron railing of the same period.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 532443 4711881
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.55865, -2.60478
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 33′ 31.14″ N, 2° 36′ 17.21″

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. I: 141
  • Arriola Loyola, Juan Luis, Trayecto alavés: de Oyón a Etxandio, [Vitoria]: Diputación Foral de Alava, Dpto. de Cultura y Euskera; Caja Laboral Popular, 1996, p. 97
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 35, 96, 128