Narbaiza / Narbaja / Narbaxa / Naruayxa / Narvaja

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Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_NARBAIZA.pdf] [accessed 13 February 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Esteban de Narbaiza [...] Vista frontal de una pila medieval en la iglesia de San Esteban de Narbaiza. Sobre un basamento cuadrado, decorado con arquillos ciegos se apoya el pie de sección cuadrangular con cuatro baquetones en los ángulos. La copa está muy decorada con una banda de arquillos en el borde y presenta al centro rosetas, estrellas y otros elementos geométricos de marcado sabor mudéjar"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08484] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66004] [accessed 9 August 2024]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 February 2023)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - motifs - interlace - quatrefoil with circle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - motifs - foliage - 6-leaf

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: a simple four-point looped interlace
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: a row of
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - architectural - building - fortress - 3 towers

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
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symbol - cross - star cross

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symbol - star - 6 points - Star of David

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "San Esteban eliza, Narbaiza, Donemiliaga"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Iñaki LL, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 7 October 2018 by Iñaki LL [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Narbaizako_eliza_1.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2023]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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design element - motifs - semicircle - 12

Scene Description: scallop-like pattern all around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph February 2023 by Silvia Lorez & Kike Lombardero
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 24594NAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban / San Esteban eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: present building 16thC on the site of an earlier church
Church Address: Narbaiza, San Millán-Donemiliaga, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A-3012, in the municipality of San Millán-Donemiliaga, 8-9 km N of Salvatierra, 23 km E of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Salvatierra-Agurain / Llanada Alavesa
Font Notes:
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66004] [accessed 9 August 2024]: "pila medieval en la iglesia de San Esteban de Narbaiza. Sobre un basamento cuadrado, decorado con arquillos ciegos se apoya el pie de sección cuadrangular con cuatro baquetones en los ángulos. La copa está muy decorada con una banda de arquillos en el borde y presenta al centro rosetas, estrellas y otros elementos geométricos de marcado sabor mudéjar". Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1994) as a beautiful baptismal font of the Gothic period ornamented with popular motifs as well as those of remote Mudéjar influence; the basin is roughly hemispherical and has a band of round arcade of twenty-four round arches all around the upper basin side; below it the basin side is divided into a number (six?) of quadrangular frames inside which is a large motif or symbol: a 8-point star, a 6-point star, a 5-point star, a 4-petal flower, a fortress with three towers and the quatrefoil interlace motif found in medieval Scandinavian art. The base consists of a central column with four constructional shafts, all with roll mouldings at top and bottom; the lower base is a play on the cushion capital shape, square and with arches per side. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, López de Guereñu and Portilla. The Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_NARBAIZA.pdf] [accessed 13 February 2023] describes and illustrates the late-medieval baptismal font decorated with some motifs of Mudéjar influence: "La pila bautismal es un bello ejemplar del bajo medievo. La copa se ornamenta con una arquería en su borde superior, mientras que en el centro se representan castillos, estrellas y otros elementos geométricos que responden a la doble tendencia ornamental de conjugar remotas influencias mudéjares con temas decorativos populares. El pie, de sección cuadrangular, con cuatro baquetones a modo de columnas en los ángulos, se apoya sobre un basamento cuadrado decorado con arquillos ciegos superpuestos." Plain wooden cover present in the López de Guereñu photograph [cf. supra].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Silvia Lorenz & Kike Lombardero for their photographs of this font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 547611 4751726
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.916667, -2.416667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 55' 0.0" N, 2° 25' 0.0" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

  • Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. V: 604-605
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 37-40, 96, 127 and fig. 15, 16
  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
  • López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962, p. 247 / [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66004] [accessed 9 August 2024]
  • Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983