Tuesta / Tosta

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design element - patterns - ribbed
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
view of church exterior - belfry - detail
view of church exterior - northwest end
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph in Valpuesta.com [www.valpuesta.com/tuesta-iglesia-de-la-asuncion-de-nuestra-senora/] [accessed 5 August 2013]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
view of church interior - detail
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of church interior - nave - west end - apse
view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child
view of font
view of font
Scene Description: notice the holy-water stoup(?) in the back, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08543] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66090] [accessed 26 July 2024]
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view of font in context
view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 18581TUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: La Iglesia Kalea, 11, 01423 Tuesta, Alava, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 35 30 40
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-2622, in the municipality of Valdegovía/Gaubea, between Espejo and Salinas de Añana, 32 km WSW of Vitoria, NNW of Miranda de Ebro
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, in the chancel
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66090] [accessed 26 July 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Tuesta (Araba/Álava) Vista frontal de una pila bautismal, sin pie, y decorada con acanaladuras en la copa." Baptismal font consisting of a large roughly hemispherical basin decorated with large convex-rib pattern on the outside, raised on a round-to-square squat base; the inner sides of the basin are decorated with concave ribbing. The carving and the general workmanship is crude. No cover present. [NB: the church may date to the Transitional period but we have no information from the font of that time].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.809129, -3.025188
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48' 33 "N, 3° 1' 27" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining