Sabando / Sanamdo de Suso / Sabando de Yuso

Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

Results: 8 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the lighter-colour repair to the upper rim is clearly visible here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

design element - motifs - sawtooth or zigzag

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

design element - motifs - triangle

Scene Description: a band of deeply-carved triangular pattern all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre drain

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Andre Maria Birjinaren Jaiotzaren eliza eta bere dorrea, Sabando"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrar, 2020

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2010 by Adrar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabandoko_eliza_eta_dorrea_2010-6-6.jpg] [accessed 22 November 2020]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Andre Maria Birjinaren Jaiotzaren eliza eta zentro soziala, Sabando" -- the present church replaced the medieval one in the 1960s; restored in the 20thC

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrar, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2010 by Adrar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sabandoko_topagunea_eta_eliza_2010-6-6.jpg] [accessed 22 November 2020]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the late-medieval(?) font in the 1950s church that replaced the earlier one

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 November 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07555SAB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Location: A-3118, 01129 Sabando, Álava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-3118, E of the A132, in the municipality and 10 km ENE of Arraia-Maeztu, 35 km SE of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Historical Region: Cuadrilla Campezo-Montaña Alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: medieval(?) church re-built 1960s
Baptismal font noted and ilustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66094] [accessed 26 July 2024]: "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal románica. Se apoya en un pie cilíndrico y decora su copa con molduras en el borde, sobre una banda de elementos geométricos biselados y otra de dientes de sierra, motivos góticos tardíos; Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Sabando (Araba/Álava)" [NB: the description uses 'Romanesque' but it mentions late-Gothic decoration]. Described in Bilbao (1994: 34, 131) as a baptismal font of the late Gothic period; the basin is ornamented with bands of zigzag and triangular motifs. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria and in López de Guereñu. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, a band of deeply-carved triangular pattern below and another band of saw-tooth or zig-zag around the underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a square lower base; some damage and repair to the basin upper rim evident. No cover present. There is a wall mounted holy-water stoup in the re-built church that may have belonged to the medieval one it replaced. Outside the village is the rural chapel [ermita] of San Gervasio, re-built in the 1950s and restored in the 20th-21stC.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 549103 4733228

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

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
López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962