Albaina No. 1 / Albayta

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: digital photograph in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Albaina] [accessed 1 Febryary 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: probably 18thC [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 20 May 2011 by Francisco Guinea

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pedro Novella

INFORMATION

FontID: 23137ALB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Calle Mayor, 09216 Albaina, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-741, W of the CL-127, in the municipality of Condado de Treviño, 12 km N of Treviño, 30 km E of Miranda de Ebro, 110 km NE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Ebro / Cuadrilla del Río Somayuda / Castilla la Vieja

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco Guinea for his photograph of the modern font here

Church Notes: medieval church demolished and replaced by present 16th and 18thC church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present baptismal font in this church is described as Neoclassical [cf. infra] and may be dated wo the 18th-century re-building of the original medieval church here. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 1 February 2021] notes: "iglesia dedicada a San Miguel Arcángel, renacentista, de una nave rectangular con bóvedas nervadas del XVI [...] torre cuadrada del XVI a la que antepusieron en el XVIII una espadaña barroca de dos cuerpos, con tres huecos [...] La pila es neoclásica con decoración grecorromana y pie rectangular". [cf. BSI entry for Alabiana No. 2 for the Romanesque chapel-of-ease nearby, the Ermita del Granado].

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UTM: 30T 530105 4726395