Salinas de Anana No. 1 / Gesaltza Añana / Salinas de Añana / Santa María de Villacones

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angel - 4

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalle de uno de los extremos de la pila bautismal; se representa una figura frontal, posiblemente un ángel [...] pila bautismal de Salinas de Añana"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08570] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] B&W photograph in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60656] [accessed 6 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled

Scene Description: all around the short stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

design element - motifs - ball

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

design element - motifs - floral - 40?

Scene Description: ten on each of the four sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 12

Scene Description: very large, three on each side between the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: between the square flowers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalle de los motivos decorativos de la copa; presenta motivos vegetales muy planos entre dos hileras de bolas. Junto a ello, un león alado [...] pila bautismal de Salinas de Añana
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08512] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] B&W photograph in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60655] [accessed 6 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

view of church exterior - portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zarateman, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2015 by Zarateman [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salinas_de_Añana_-_Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Villacones_5.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juanje 2712, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2010 by Juanje 2712 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Villacones_-_Añana_-_DSC_8483.JPG] [accessed 5 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the tower of the church is visible on the left hand side of the image; there is no visible trace here of the town walls and the Iglesia de San Cristobal, which was built into them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juanje 2712, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 November 2010 by Juanje 2712 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_de_Villacones_-_Añana_-_DSC_8430.JPG] [accessed 5 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernández Villaverde, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2022)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2022)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2022)

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal. La copa de gran tamaño presenta tres fajas de motivos decorativos; la inferior y la superior presenta sarta de bolas y la intermedia, motivos vegetales muy planos. Los extremos presentan dos leones alados y el pie presenta decoración de arquerías ciegas. Pila bautismal en Salinas de Añana"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD.08511] of an undated [ca. 1940-1960] B&W photograph in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66102] [accessed 25 July 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

view of stoup in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 December 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19743SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de Villacones [originally from the disappeared medieval church of San Cristóbal?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Real Kalea, 3, 01426 Salinas De Añana / Gesaltza Añana, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-2622 [aka Real Kalea], in the municipality of Añana, NNW of Miranda de Ebro, 30 km WSW of Vitoria
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde and to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for their photographs of this font and stoup
Church Notes: earlier 13thC church had replaced a rural church here; re-built 15th-16thC; tower added ca. 1700; restored 1978
Font Notes:
Baptismal font illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66102] [accessed 25 July 2024] described as: "Pila bautismal en Salinas de Añana [...] La copa de gran tamaño presenta tres fajas de motivos decorativos; la inferior y la superior presenta sarta de bolas y la intermedia, motivos vegetales muy planos. Los extremos presentan dos leones alados y el pie presenta decoración de arquerías ciegas". Baptismal font consisting of a round tapering basin raised on a very short round pedestal base; on four opposite sides of the basin are four very prominent angel figures; around the basin, between the angels, a row of large floral motifs on the upper level, followed down by a roll moulding, below which are arranged three large square flowers in each of the four sides of the basin; there is also a torsade pattern between each square flower; a roll moulding divides the basin sides from the underbowl, the latter decorated with a row of ball motif; the squat stem of the base is decorated with a row of trefoiled arch-heads; not clear whether or not part of the base is buried in the present flooring. No font cover present. [cf. BSI entry for Salinas de Anana No. 2 for the disappeared font of the disappeared church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.800233, -2.985906
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48′ 0.84″ N, 2° 59′ 9.26″ W
UTM: 30T 501152 4738631

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round