Alcedo / Alzedo / Elcedo / Elcetu / Elzeto / Olcedo

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice that the palmette drieze stops towards the left end; a later re-carving done to the original?

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08344] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66023] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: obviously a composite font

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ALCEDO.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2024]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

Scene Description: beautifully executed; a band of, all around

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ALCEDO.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2024]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia románica de San Martín del pueblo de Alcedo (Álava), (País Vasco, España)"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2016 by Toño Antón [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Alcedo.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 30 July 2024]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 25619ALC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: n.d.

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia parroquial de San Martín / San Martin eliza

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a side chapel

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours

Church Notes: present church retains few elements of the original 13thC Romanesque church

Church Address: Real Kalea, 6, 01423 Lantaron, Alava, Spain

Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the A-2625. in the municipality of Lantarón, about 40 km WSW of Vitoria/Gasteiz

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Añana

Additional Comments: composite font? (basin and base not matched)

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66023] [accessed 30 July 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Alcedo [,,,] pila bautismal de un sólo cuerpo y pie rectangular. Presenta decoración de relieves en la parte superior de la copa". The photograph in López de Guereñu shows that the palmette frieze stops towards the left end; a later re-carving done to the original?
Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ALCEDO.pdf] [accessed 30 July 2024]: "En la capilla de la derecha se encuentra la pila bautismal. Tiene la gran copa gallonada con una cenefa, en su parte superior muy similar a los motivos decorativos que encontrábamos en el pórtico, pero de factura más moderna. Se apoya sobre un pequeño plinto de base cuadrada, de piedra menos pulida y con la parte inferior ligeramente ensanchada."

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are 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 497909 4735922

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.775833, -3.025556

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 46′ 33″ N, 3° 1′ 32″ W

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: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.