Urbina in Legutiano

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/65993] [accessed 10 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Antolín de Urbina [...] pila medieval sencilla; la copa es lisa y el pie está formado por medias columnas". Described in Bilbao (1994: 133) as a plain baptismal font of the medieval period. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in López de Guereñu. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_URBINA.pdf] [accessed 15 May 2024] reports a medieval font consisting of a hemisperical basin on pedestal base made up of five constructional columns with bases; the source further questions whether it came originally from a nearby chapel or abandoned place ["iglesia realizada a finales del siglo xv y principios del xvi que sólo conserva de su pasado medieval la pila bautismal. Ésta se compone de una copa semiesférica y sin decorar, que apoya sobre un pie cilíndrico al que se adosan cuatro sencillas columnas con sus correspondientes basas. Es posible, aunque no hay certeza absoluta, que se trate de una pieza reutilizada, procedente, tal vez, de alguna ermita o despoblado"]. The font is shown in López de Guereñu's photograph [cf. supra] without a lower base, which was probably buried in the flooring at the time, whereas the later photograph in the Enciclopedia... [cf. supra] shows the square lower base with decorations. The font has no cover now but it retains two metal staples in the upper rim basin from a former cover.