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INFORMATION
FontID: 19853ALG
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 20260 Alegría de Oria / Alegi, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A-1, just W of Altzo, 6 km S of Tolosa, 31 km S of San Sebastián
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de San Sebastián
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Neoclassical
Church Notes: church is mid-17thC, but there may have been an earlier church here
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two objects located now outside the church, one of which may be the original mid-17th century baptismal font here; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with moulded sides and a plain unerbowl, raised on a plain pedestal base that may very well be a modern replacement. Next to it, also outside the church, is another such vessel, perhaps a stoup, consisting of a shallow round basin decorated with a gadrooned pattern on the underbowl, on a round bulbous upper base, and a square pyramidal lower base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 6' 1.92" N,
2° 5' 56.71" W
UTM: 30T 573374 4772376
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining