Quintana nr. Bernedo / Kinta

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animal - mammal - lion - rampant

Scene Description: on one of the two adjecent sides of the base [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 2

Scene Description: in the two adjacent carved panels

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

human figure - head

Scene Description: somewhat similar to the one in the panel, long-haired but clean-faced

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

human figure - male - bearded

Scene Description: on one of the two adjacent carved sides of the base [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: on the left corner here

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: seen here on the right angle

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

view of base

Scene Description: shwing a carved side on the left, a rough side on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

view of base

Scene Description: showing a rough side on the left, a carved side on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: plugged cover holes visible on the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro IrigoyenTxaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph in the Bernedo municipality site [www.bernedo.org/bernedo/quintana/] [accessed 16 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2011 by Mgoni4 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kintana.jpg] [accessed 16 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 August 2015)

view of font

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08505] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66093] [accessed 26 July 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07533QUI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: 01128 Quintana / Kinta, Alava / Arava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located on the A3136, 4-5 km NE of Bernedo, and in its municipality, 40 km SSE of Vitoria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove too narrow to be functional as a baptistery

Century and Period: 13th - 16th century[composite font?], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66093] [accessed 26 July 2024]: "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval. La copa sin decorar se apoya sobre un pie cuadrangular abaquetonado en las aristas. Dos caras de la pilastra se han decorado: en una aparece un ángel y en la otra un león rampante. Podía tratarse de un tetramorfos que no llegó a concluirse. Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Quintana en Álava". Noted in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria (1968). Described in Bilbao (1994) as a medieval baptismal font, a plain basin raised on a quadrangular base with mouldings at the arrises; on one side, an angel; on another, a lion; the two other sides are blank; Bilbao (ibid.) suggests an unfinished Tetramorphos. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en el País Vasco (vol. III, p. 1310). The font consists of a hemispherical basin that has been so throughly re-tooled that practically nothing remains of the old surface, except a few traces on the upper rim; it is raised on a crude irregular pedestal base of quadrangular shape, with two sides left rough and two sides carved; the carved sides are adjacent, which suggests the base was meant to be seen at the carved angle, with the rough sides to the back [NB: this, and the total absence of any other trace of wings makes Bilbao's claim of an unfinished Tetramorphos [cf. supra] totally unsound]; the carved sides start at the left angle of the panel occupied by a human figure; the left angle is carved in the shape of a crude tree or plant; inside the panel is a male bearded figure that appears to be holding objects in both hands, framed in a very irregular trefoiled arch or window; the right angle is carved with a long-haired human head on a round pillar or piping; the adjacent side to the right is framed in a similar trefoiled arch or window inside which is a crude rendition of an animal that suggests a rampant position; by a stretch of the imagination, and equally stretching a charitable inclination, one could say it suggests a rampant lion; the right angle of this side appears to have been carved with a plant or tree that would be similar to the one noted above, had it retained its upper branches. The whole base is a crude work that must be the output of a local not very talented sculptor. With all the re-tooling done on the basin block, there is nothing to match these two pieces, and it is quite likely that they did not belong together originally. The plugged hole(s) in the upper rim suggests an earlier font cover in place, but there is none present now [2015].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 39' 30.15" N, 2º 28' 41.26" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994