Aperregui / Apperregi

Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Scene Description: a broad one, all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 March 2025)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Aperregiko eliza (Zuia, Araba)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Assar, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 7 May 2017 by Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Assar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aperregiko_eliza_(zuia,_araba)_2.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2025]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 March 2025)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25849APE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban / Aperregiko San Esteban eliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Amezola Kalea, Aperregui, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located R of the AP-68, in the municipality of Zuya/Zuia, about 20 km NW of Vitoria/Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Gorbeialdea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: 16thC church
Baptismal font consisting of a roughly-hemispherical basin decorated with a broad flat moulding all around; raised on a short pedestal base and a lower base, both plain. No cover present but the upper rim of the basin retains metal anchorings for a cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.92308, -2.84225
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 55′ 23.09″ N, 2° 50′ 32.1″ W
UTM: 30T 512874 4752285

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]