Arroyabe - Arroiabe

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: "Iglesia de Arroiabe, al fondo el Gorbea"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2006 by Unaitxu

Copyright Instructions: GFDL

INFORMATION

Font ID: 26254YVJ

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century (?), Neoclassical

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Nuestra señora de la Asunción en el pueblo alavés de Arroyabe

Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Notes: 16thC re-building of an earlier medieval [Romanesque?] church

Church Address: Obispo Diaz de Espada Kalea, 1, 01520 Arroiabe, Araba, Spain

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

Directions to Site: Located off the A-3002, in the municipality of Arratzua-Ubarrundia, 12-13 km NE of Vitoria-Gasteiz

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Zuya

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original medieval church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font of black veined marble consists of a round basin raised on a round-to-square pedestal base; it appears relatively modern, 17th/18th century at the earliest. [NB: we have no information on an earlier font here].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for bringing this font to our attention and for his photograph of it

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 531287 4751632

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.916667, -2.616667

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 55′ 0″ N, 2° 37′ 0″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (black)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round