Barria / Barría

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Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 June 2024)

Results: 6 records

design element - motifs - ball

notice that the left side of the basin was left rough, unfiinished/undecorated, probably because that side of the font was intended to go in a blind spot, a wall or a corner
Scene Description: notice that the left side of the basin was left rough, unfiinished/undecorated, probably because that side of the font was intended to go in a blind spot, a wall or a corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 19 June 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 June 2024)

view of basin

the damage to the upper rim at the back, and the metal staple on the opposite front side were the anchoring spots for the missing font cover
Scene Description: the damage to the upper rim at the back, and the metal staple on the opposite front side were the anchoring spots for the missing font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 19 June 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 June 2024)

view of church exterior - detail

Source caption: "Monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Barria (Álava)" [NB: abandoned by the Cistercian nuns in the 1970s -- re-purposed as youth hostel in 1984]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Barria (Álava)" [NB: abandoned by the Cistercian nuns in the 1970s -- re-purposed as youth hostel in 1984]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2012 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barria_-_Monasterio_de_Santa_Maria_1.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of church exterior in context

showing the extension of the former Cistercian convent, re-purposed a youth hostel since 1984
Scene Description: showing the extension of the former Cistercian convent, re-purposed a youth hostel since 1984
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gaztea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Gaztea [https://gazteria.araba.eus/es/-/albergues-barria] [accessed 21 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church interior - nave - looking east

showing the interior of the church in the former Cistercian convent, re-purposed a youth hostel since 1984
Scene Description: showing the interior of the church in the former Cistercian convent, re-purposed a youth hostel since 1984
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gaztea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Gaztea [https://gazteria.araba.eus/es/-/albergues-barria] [accessed 21 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

the original basin on a modern replacement base
Scene Description: the original basin on a modern replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 19 June 2024 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 June 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25568BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Barría [deconsecrated], Monasterio de Santa María de Barria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Monasterio de Barria, 01208 Barría, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (N) road A-3012, in the municipality of San Millán, 10 km NNW of Salvatierra, 25-30 km ENE of Vitoria-Gasteiz town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Vitoria [after the «nullius dioecesis» papal bull was revoked 14 July 1873 by Pope Pius IX]
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Salvatierra / Arabako Lautadako kuadrilla / Llanada alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the former monastery church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Romanesque [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for bring this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: late-12th / early-13thC Cistercian convent; earliest parts of present building 15thC; monastery church served as parish church as well until the 19thC; abandoned by the nuns in the 1970s; re-purposed as youth hostel/camp in 1984
Font Notes:
A baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with ball motifs on some of the exterior sides, as part of the outer surface is unfinished/undecorated, as if meant to go against a wall or corner; large damage showing at the upper rim; that damaged area and the metal staple showing on the front side were the anchoring spots fior a font cover that is now lacking; the basin may have belonged to the medieval monastery church which is known to have served also as parish church until the 19th century. Records of baptism in this church date back to 1567; the last recorded is of 20 November 1973. The parochial functions of the convent church ceased on 2 July 1874. The extensive study of the convent and its history by Micaela J. Portilla [Barria-Ayer y hoy de un monasterio-Micaela Portlla,pdf] [accessed 22 June 2024] mentions a baptismal font in the conventual-cum-parochial church as now lost ["la pila bautismal, perdida hoy", p. 57]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.915705, -2.43532
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 54′ 56.54″ N, 2° 26′ 7.15″ W
UTM: 30T 546089 4751609

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round