Minano Menor / Mengano Goien / Miñano Menor / Miñao Gutxia / Miñaogutxia

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: all around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recevived from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recevived from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: on the short base

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recevived from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Sorce caption: "Miñaogutxiko eliza"

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2016 by Assar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miñaogutxiko_eliza.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Scene Description: the metal bar leaning on the right wall is part of the font cover locking hardware

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recevived from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2023 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recevived from the author (e-mail of 25 March 2023)

INFORMATION

FontID: 24633MIN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Vicente Mártir / San Bizente Martiria Miñaogutxiko eliza

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent of Saragosse

Church Location: Miñano Menor Entitatea, 601510 Miñano Menor, Alava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located off the A-3604, N of the AP-1, in the municipality and 12 km N of Vitoria / Gasteiz city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Alfoz de Ubarrundia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptismal font here is not mentioned in the entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_MIÑANO_MENOR_MIÑAO_GUTXIA.pdf] [accessed 25 March 2023]. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with ball motif on the upper rim, and a flat moulding right below; the short pedestal base is decorated with a torsade pattern; two metal anchoring staples still on the upper rim, and there is a metal bar that wroks with them to lock the cover. Wooden cover, flat, round and plain. modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.923434, -2.669422

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 55′ 24.36″ N, 2° 40′ 9.92″ W

UTM: 30T 526978 4752365

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (base)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: moedern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]