Ganuza / Gauza

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design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the square lower base -- two of them are visible in the image here, the others hidden in the raised flooring

Image Source: digital image of a photograph from the Institución Príncipe de Viana taken by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph from the Institución Príncipe de Viana taken by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: around the upper part of the base stem, with varied types and expressions

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph from the Institución Príncipe de Viana taken by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Eulalia. Portada gótica"

Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2023 by Lozano Manzanedo [https://www.wikiwand.com/es/Ganuza#Media/Archivo:Ganuza_3.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Eulalia. Muro sur"

Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2023 by Lozano Manzanedo [https://www.wikiwand.com/es/Ganuza#Media/Archivo:Ganuza_1.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph from the Institución Príncipe de Viana taken by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice also that the lower base was not visible at the time, buried in the raised wooden flooring

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken ca.1943, in the Archivo Uranga, Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00476GAN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia

Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida

Church Location: Camino de Ollobarren, 31241 Ganuza, Navarra, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Metauten, S of Estella, 56 km E of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Merindad de Estella

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century (early?) (base) -- 16th century(basin) [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: The bases of the fonts at Metauten and Ollobarren, both in Navarra as well

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión y Pimoulier, all of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font

Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 13thC; modified 16thC; belfry added 1973

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990-?, v. II**: 358-359) and in Domeño (1992:75, 150 and ill. 89 and 90): base of a medieval baptismal font, from the early 13th century; the ribbed basin was added later, in the 16th century; the cylindrical column base is ornamented with eight popular and expressive heads at the upper part; the square lower base has ball motif ornamentation and is recessed in the new floor; the later basin is hemispherical and ornamented with ribbed pattern. A plain flat wooden cover is present in the 1943 source, not in the 1992 one. No entry found for Ganuza in the Enciclopedia del romanico.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41' 49.23" N, 2° 8' 4.55" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: a plain flat wooden cover is visible in the 1943 image source below

REFERENCES

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992

García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]