Apozaga No. 2 / Apotzaga / Apózaga
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design element - motifs - ball - 4
Scene Description: one on each of the corners of the lower base
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1145768.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2020]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, [2020]
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1145768.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2020]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Conjunto de dos pilas bautismales idénticas. Realizadas en piedra apoyan en una basa cuadrada con bolas en los vertices. El fuste cilíndrico remata en un anillo sobre el que descansa la pila semiesférica. El interior está poco rehundido. Carece de decoración. Las pilas proceden de la anteiglesia de Galartza. Ubicación: Acceso Siglo XII-XIII Estilo: Románico Editor: Fondo Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza Gipuzkoa" -- said to be originally from nearby Galartza; they have an incoherent appearance, as the base does not match the basin at all [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, [2020]
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1145768.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2020]
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![the two fonts, if that is what they were [cf. FontNotes], are visible here flanking the entrance to the cemetery; they appear to be identical](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200610006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the two fonts, if that is what they were [cf. FontNotes], are visible here flanking the entrance to the cemetery; they appear to be identical
INFORMATION
FontID: 22711APO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel / Apotzagako San Miguel eliza [Apotzagako hilerria [kanposantu] / Cementerio de Apózaga
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Apotzaga Elizalea Auzoa, 20540 Apózaga / Apotzaga, Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the AP-1 and Arechavaleta / Aretxabaleta. 3 km NE of Escoriaza / Eskoriatza
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de San Sebastián
Font Location in Church: At the entrance of the old cemetery of Apozaga]
Century and Period: Medieval? / Modern?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font here mentioned as reference in Arantza Cuesta Ezeiza's entry for the font at Arcarazo, in Gure Gipuzkoa [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/es?lang=es&paged=1&s=pila+bautismal#gallery/759716a5c1b6f245765792f1e7d1bae1/147587/comments] [accessed 9 June 2020] as being related to the ones at nearby Escoriaza and Arcarazo. Noted and illustrated in Cuesta Ezeiza's entry for two identical fonts in the cemetery of Apozaga / Apotzaga [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/arantzacuestaezeiza/1145768.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2020]: pair of identical Romanesque baptismal fonts made of stone [type not specified] in the 12th-13th century, originally from the 'barrio' of Galartza [="Conjunto de dos pilas bautismales idénticas. Realizadas en piedra apoyan en una basa cuadrada con bolas en los vertices. El fuste cilíndrico remata en un anillo sobre el que descansa la pila semiesférica. El interior está poco rehundido. Carece de decoración. Las pilas proceden de la anteiglesia de Galartza. Ubicación: Acceso Siglo XII-XIII Estilo: Románico". The two fonts, if that is what they were originally, appear identical: a hemispherical basin with a circular base, all plain; they are raised on cylindical pedestal bases and a lower base or plinth decorated with ball motif at the corners; the 'bases' do not match the basins, the type of stone is different and they form an incongruent and incherent whole; they would not have been part of the original if these are indeed medieval fonts. Noted in Bertan 2 Gipukoa ignorada, by Luis-Pedro Peña Santiago with photographs by Xabi Otero (San Sebastian, 1993) [http://bertan.gipuzkoakultura.net/bertan2/bertan/caste/3.php] [accessed 10 June 2020]: "lo más interesante de esta barriada de Apotzaga es su cementerio [...] Se trata de un cementerio circular, circular como las estelas discoideas. [...] A la entrada del cementerio se ven dos gigantescas pilas bautismales románicas, una a cada lado. Ellas también están casi vacías, y sólo las ocupan las hojas de los árboles en el otoño y las gotas de la lluvia en la primavera."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.03, -2.5244
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 1′ 48″ N, 2° 31′ 27.84″ W
UTM: 30T 538747 4764256
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round