Arbues No. 1 / Arbués

The baptismal font in this church is a rather confusing object, all the more for being half-built into the wall -perhaps originally- and having been re-tooled in part; the basin is round with slightly tapering sides and a rounded underbowl; the 'stem' is a circular piece with a wide flat moukding; the lower base is a square pyramid ridiculously short and small. The church dates probably from the late 17th century, and this font may be of that date, unless it was an earlier font re-cut and re-used here [cf. Index entry for Arbues No. 2 for a plain octagonal basin located also inside this church]