Cestafe No. 2 / Zestafe

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

design element - motifs - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

view of basin - interior

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 December 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20194CES
Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Pedro [former parish church of Gorostiza]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the N-240, 2 km from Gopegui, in the municipality of Zigoitia, just W of the Embalse de Urrunaga, N of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria, Archidiócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: the other font listed in this hamlet has a similar base, but the basin is different
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this church and font
Baptismal font consisting of a totally plain rounded, not quite hemispherical, basin; the shape of the basin, both in a and out, suggest a late-medieval date or later; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base with a roll moulding atop, and a round-to-square lower base with a roll moulding atop, a wider moulding and four angle decorations at 90-degree angles; these four are very worn and may have been heads, knobs, etc. No cover present; no lining.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 58' 10.26" N, 2° 42' 18.22" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining