Ganuza / Gauza
Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 7 records
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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 church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Eulalia. Portada gótica"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lozano Manzanedo, 2023
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Eulalia. Muro sur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lozano Manzanedo, 2023
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: around the upper part of the base stem, with varied types and expressions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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)
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
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)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00476GAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 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
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eulalia of Mérida
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 13thC; modified 16thC; belfry added 1973
Church Address: Camino de Ollobarren, 31241 Ganuza, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Metauten, S of Estella, 56 km E of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Estella
Additional Comments: composite font? (only the base is original, the basin a later replacement)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
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, p. 46, 74, 75, 112, 150 and ill. 89 and 90
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. II**: 358-359