Mendiola nr. Vitoria / Mendiolha
Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 26 November 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: at both end of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 26 November 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
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design element - patterns - ribbed - flat
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 26 November 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Mendiola. Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, España"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basotxerri, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2017 by Basotxerri [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mendiola_-_Iglesia_02.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2022]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 26 November 2022 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 November 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 24472MEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de La Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: La Salceda Kalea, 9-1, 01194 Mendiola, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off local road A-4127, in the municipality and 4-5 km SSE of Vitoria/Gasteiz city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche off the nave, S side
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of tis font
Church Notes: earlier church pre-1467, when some remains show in the present chiefly 16thC church
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in this church probably dates of the 16th-century re-building of the earlier building; it consists of a hemispherical basin with a sharp upper moulding that is damaged in some spots, the sides and underbowl decorated with a flat-rib pattern; on a cylindrical pedestal base with mouldings at both ends.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.819395, -2.652951
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 49′ 9.82″ N, 2° 39′ 10.63″ W
UTM: 30T 528370 4740818
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rp