Aguinaga de Eibar / Agiña / Agiñaga / Eibarko Aginaga
Image copyright © Juan San Martin, 1968
CC-BY-SA
Results: 2 records
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kezka Dantza Taldea Eibar, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 January 2009 by Kezka Dantza Taldea Eibar [www.flickr.com/photos/76385986@N00/4308570131] [accessed 14 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eibarko Aginaga. Bataiarria. IRISMENA ETA EDUKIA: Aginaga auzoko elizako bataiarria OHARRAK: Izenburu formala gazteleraz" [NB: but the 'formal title' is not given in the source].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan San Martin, 1968
Image Source: digital image [AGG-GAO_JSM00516] of a 1968 B&W photograph by Juan San Martin, in GipuzkoaKultura [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/juan-san-martin/9646.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA
INFORMATION
FontID: 22731AGU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel / Eibarko Agiñagako San Migel eliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Aguinaga de Eibar / Eibarko Aginaga, Aginaga auzoa, Eibar, 20600, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Guipúzcoa / Gipuzkoa, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located N of the N-634 and the AP-8, 5 km N of Eibar, about equidistant between Bilbao (WNW) and San Sebastian (ENE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de San Sebastián
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Church Notes: church documented 1559 as having a baptismal font in it by 1556; a font in is again mentioned in 1564 [source: Luis Martínez de Morentín de Goñi's AGUINAGA DE EIBAR. Historia de la parroquia [pdf ]]
Font Notes:
Click to view
Baptismal font illustrated by Juan San Martin, in GipuzkoaKultura [www.guregipuzkoa.eus/wp-content/gallery/juan-san-martin/9646.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2020]; the font consists of a plain hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square pedestal base. It has a polygonal wooden font cover of the 'rim-buffet' type with a finial; 18th-century?
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 541759 4785497
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]