Arbigano / Arbígano

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Visitación de Nuestra Señora de Arbígano. Imagen exterior de la iglesia. De fábrica pobre, presenta un gran arco de medio punto como entrada y un campanario de planta cuadrangular."
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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 00348] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/45936] [accessed 8 August 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25585ARB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de la Visitación de Nuestra Señora, Arbigano
Church Patron Saints: The Visitation of St. Mary
Church Location: Arbigano Entitatea, 11, 01420 Arbigano, Ribera Alta, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (N) road A-2622, west of the AP-68, in the municipality of Ribera Alta / Erriberagoitia, 20-25 km W of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Añana
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratwful to Francisco Guinea for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: 16thC church
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 8 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Visitación de Nuestra Señora de Arbígano [...] la copa no presenta motivos ornamentales". Baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base; all plain. The wooden cover, shown in the old photograph, appears round, flat and plain, with a wooden handle; modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 505474 4739101
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]