Roitegui / Erroitegi / Róitegui

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Results: 12 records

design element - motifs - floral - in a circle

Scene Description: a band of inscribed stylised floral motifs, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - motifs - roll moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a band of, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - patterns - saw-tooth

Scene Description: a band of just below the upper rim, all around

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Erroitegiko eliza"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Unai Fdz. de Betoño, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 August 2008 by Unai Fdz. de Betoño [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erroitegiko_eliza_eta_frontoia_2008_8_21.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Pedro de Roitegui [...] Vista frontal de una pila románica con pie cilíndrico y decorado con molduras del siglo XVI. La copa ornamenta su base con grandes motivos de zigzag puntea dos sobre los que se despliega una franja de rosetas geométricas inscritas en círculos. La banda superior presenta palmetas enmarcadas en semicírculos y, entre estos, triángulos cóncavos"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08509] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

view of font

Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper basin side on the right, no doubt caused by the metal staple of an old cover anchoring [NB: the base of the font is the same as the one shown in López de Guereñu's earlier photograph, but different from the one shown in the Enciclopedia...] [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu [https://www.arraia-maeztu.eus/arraia-maeztu/roitegui-erroitegi/] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [NB: the base shown here is very different from the one shown in the earlier photograph by López de Guereñu -- we have no information when the base was changed]
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_RÓITEGUI__ERROITEGI.pdf] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

view of font in context

Scene Description: seen here in its alcove, next to the west gallery stairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu [https://www.arraia-maeztu.eus/arraia-maeztu/roitegui-erroitegi/] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Scene Description: seen here in its alcove, next to the west gallery stairs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ayuntamiento Arraia-Maeztu [https://www.arraia-maeztu.eus/arraia-maeztu/roitegui-erroitegi/] [accessed 9 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 07535ROI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro / Erroitegiko San Pedro eliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: San Pedro Kalea, 01129 Roitegui, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located on the A-3114, in the municipality and 10 km NE of Arraya-Maestu/Araia-Maeztu, 35 km ESE of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de la Montaña alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Onraita and San Román de San Millán [a/p Bilbao, 1994: 40)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Font Notes:
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66048] [accessed 9 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Pedro de Roitegui [...] pila románica con pie cilíndrico y decorado con molduras del siglo XVI. La copa ornamenta su base con grandes motivos de zigzag puntea dos sobre los que se despliega una franja de rosetas geométricas inscritas en círculos. La banda superior presenta palmetas enmarcadas en semicírculos y, entre estos, triángulos cóncavos". Described in Bilbao (1994) as a composite baptismal font: the Romanesque basin is ornamented with triangular motifs, zigzag, stylised rosettes, palmettes, etc. and dates from the 13th century; the base is dated to the 16th century. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria and in Portilla. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?). Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_RÓITEGUI__ERROITEGI.pdf] [accessed 9 August 2024]: "espléndida pila bautismal de copa románica y pie renacentista. Esta copa está completamente labrada, y, de arriba abajo, presenta los siguientes motivos con una superposición de frisos: al borde de la copa, franja de dientes de sierra; debajo, tres finas líneas con pequeñas puntas de diamante; a continuación palmetas enmarcadas en semicírculos con decoración de punteado. Bajo esta franja, una nueva decoración de dientes de sierra, pero con los bordes biselados, creando un efecto de claroscuro; tres líneas con puntas de diamante, y una franja de rosetas geométricas inscritas en círculos o discos con seis radios. La franja inferior se decora con elementos en zigzag con decoración de puntos. Esta pila pertenece al mismo taller que las pilas de la cercana Onraita y de San Román de San Millán, situado ya en la Llanada, al otro lado de los montes de Iturrieta. Se enclava dentro de una corriente decorativista geométrica del siglo xiii, de claro horror vacui, muy propio del arte oriental, combinada con la influencia cisterciense, aunque también es palpable la herencia del arte popular y su ascendencia mudéjar. Estas pilas se pueden relacionar también con la de la iglesia palentina de Boadilla del Camino, que repite, aunque más toscamente, los motivos de arcos o flores de seis pétalos inscritas en círculos." Noted and illustrated in the municipality web site [https://www.arraia-maeztu.eus/arraia-maeztu/roitegui-erroitegi/] [accessed 9 August 2024]: "Es de reseñar el baptisterio, que tiene una pila románica con el pie cilíndrico, decorado con molduras del siglo XVI"; it shows the basin on the same base as in the earlier photograph by López de Guereñu [cf. infra and supra]. [NB: the base shown in the Enciclopedia... is very different from the one shown in the earlier photograph by López de Guereñu and later photographs in the municipality web site-- we have no information when the base was changed]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.779241, -2.382931
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 46′ 45.27″ N, 2° 22′ 58.55″ W
UTM: 30T 550476 4736485

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: 2024-08-09 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962
Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]
Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983