Villabuena de Alava / Eskuernaga / Villaescuerna
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Villabuena. Pila bautismal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.ENC.CD.31741-31742] of an undated [ca. 1959-1965] photograph in the Colección Enciso [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/85755] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Scene Description: desig
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.ENC.CD.31741-31742] of an undated [ca. 1959-1965] photograph in the Colección Enciso [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/85755] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.ENC.CD.31741-31742] of an undated [ca. 1959-1965] photograph in the Colección Enciso [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/85755] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Villabuena - Iglesia de San Andrés"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 28 January 2018 by Zarateman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villabuena_-_Iglesia_de_San_Andrés_02.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07568VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century[basin only], Late Gothic [basin only]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Andrés
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: present church 16th and 18thC
Church Address: La Plaza Iglesia, Villabuena / Eskuernaga, 01307 Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-3214, 7-8 km W of Laguardia, in the Rioja alavesa, 57 km S of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Rioja Alavesa
Additional Comments: altered font (the base is a later replacement)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font illustrated in the Colección Enciso [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/85755] [accessed 10 August 2024]. Described in Bilbao (1994) as a medieval baptismal font of the late or delayed Gothic; the large cylindrical basin is ornamented with diagonal mouldings. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 527527 4710751
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.548667, -2.664722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 32′ 55.2″ N, 2° 39′ 53″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. I: 152
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 96, 134