Eguileor / Egileor / Eguíleor
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Results: 3 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: "Egileorreko eliza / Church of Egileor, in Agurain municipality"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gartxoak, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by Gartxoak
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco Guinea, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Francisco Guinea
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07627EGU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1582?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro de Eguíleor
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Arranbe Kalea, 4, 01207 Egileor, Araba, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-4141, in the municipality of Agurain, 4 km S of Salvatierra
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Notes:
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Listed in Bilbao (1994: 97) as one of several baptismal fonts in the area dating to ca. 1582. Baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly-hemispherical basin raised on a cylidrical pedestal base; the font is plain except for a roll mouling towards the upper end of the stem of the base. The wooden font cover is round, flat and plain; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco Guinea for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 549867 4741078
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.820638, -2.389974
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 49′ 14.3″ N, 2° 23′ 23.9″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 97