Retana / Erretana

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 5

Scene Description: broad central shaft with four constructional colonnettes at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: all around the quadrangular lower base

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Retana (Álava) - Iglesia de San Esteban"

Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2018 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retana_-_Iglesia_de_San_Esteban_1.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2023]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the large repair to the rim side, by one of the metal staples

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08507] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66005] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07534RET

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Erretana Entitatea, 01510 Retana, Álava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located off the N-240 / A-240, 8 km NNE of Vitoria-Gasteiz

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Vitoria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66005] [accessed 1 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Esteban de Retana. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal medieval. El cuerpo superior, sin decorar, descansa sobre núcleo central con cuatro baquetones adosados". Described in Bilbao (1994: 129), who suggests the possibility that, although it looks medieval, it may be of a later date; she cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The baptismal font consists of a plain roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a base of five constructional columns on a moulded quadrangular base; there are four metal staples at the upper rim, one of which has split the stone; the repair is noticeable despite the thick coat of paint that covers the basin now. The wooden cover is roound, flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.903532, -2.644658

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 54′ 12.71″ N, 2° 38′ 40.77″ W

UTM: 30T 529009 4750163

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968

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