Eguiarreta No. 1 / Egiarreta

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Results: 8 records

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: the shape of the arches is almost horse-shoe

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 5-petal

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels of the arcade

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design element - motifs - triangle

Scene Description: in one of the spandrels of the arcade

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human figure - arms akimbo

Scene Description: a dancer?

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human figure - artisan - musician - musical instrument - percussion instrument - tambourine

human figure - artisan - musician - musical instrument - wind instrument - horn

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symbol - cross - Latin

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00481EGU
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 31868 Eguiarreta, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-7500 [aka Carretera de Larraun], about 3 km WNW of Irurzun. in the municipality of Araquil/Arakil
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Pamplona / Comarca de La Barranca
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Font at Vidaurre (Navarra)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, and to the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the image of this font
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. V*: 157) and in Domeño (1992: 82, 145 and pl. 108, 109): Romanesque chalice-shaped baptismal font of the 12th century; the round basin has three round arches, each containing a figure: the left holds up a tambourine, the centre one holds a horn and the right one has its arms akimbo; the two spandrels of the arcade have a triangle and a rosette respectively; the base, a fragment of square pedestal ornamented with a Latin cross and side fluting, is, as Domeño points out, obviously not the original. The font at Vidaurre, also in Navarra [cf. Index entry for Vidaurre], has similar figures and is altogether quite alike this one. Described in Bilbao (1996: 246 fn375) as depicting musicians and dancers who accompany the celebration of a christening. No mention of this church is made in the ennry for Eguiarreta in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/navarra_Eguiarreta.pdf] [accessed 3 March 2023], which describes only the Ermita de Santiago de Itsasperri; this 'ermita' Is thought o have been the parish church of the disappeared hamlet of that name, but it had already been abandoned in the Middle Ages; as such, it would have had a baptismal font of which nothing is known [cf. BSI entry for Eguiarreta No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in Itsasperri/Ichasperri]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4753143 592692

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Notes: Low conical lid; modern

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
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?]