Vitoria No. 3 / Gasteiz

INFORMATION

FontID: 07621VIT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Vicente

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Cognate Fonts: An identical (?) one in the same temple

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Castro (1915: 78) as one of two beautiful shell-shaped basins weighing 70 kg. each [the source refers to them as baptismal fonts ["pilas bautismales"], but they may be actually holy-water stoups.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: shell-shaped

REFERENCES

Castro, Cristóbal de, Catálogo monumental de España: Provincia de Alava, Madrid: Est. Tip. Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1915