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design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of church exterior - southeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 07560ULL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 01192 Ullíbarri-Arrazua, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located of (N) the A-3008, 9 km ENE of Vitoria, on one of the roads leading to the Embalse de Ullibarri, towards Azúa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Comarca Cuadrilla de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Sánchez for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church originally 13thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Bilbao (1994) as a baptismal font of the medieval period; cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Baptismal font of stone, consisting of a plain hemispherical basin with one metal staple remaining in the rim from an old font cover; raised on a round pedestal base splaying towards the bottom; the lower base is ornamented with a rope moulding towards the top, a roll moulding below, an a row of leaves arranged in scalloped fashion on the splaying part. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.887709,
-2.593675
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 53′ 15.75″ N,
2° 35′ 37.23″ W
UTM: 30T 533179 4748425
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice shaped
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