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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: digital image by the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: several types; at least one is hooded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: digital image by the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: digital image by the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00486MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: Metauten, 31241, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the NA-7310, N of the A-12, in the municipality of the same name, 11 km W of Estella, about 55 km WSW of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Estella
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Ollobarren, especially the base; also the base at Ganuza
Church Notes: late-Gothic / Renaissance church built on the site of an earlier Romanesque building; modified 17th and 18thC;
Font Notes:
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Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 124); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 162 and pl 154): medieval baptismal font of the Romanesque period; plain hemispheric basin raised on a shaft topped with a square capital ornamented with a human head at each angle, plus one other on each side, to a total of eight heads; at least one of the heads wears a hood [NB: at present [1992+] only the upper part of the base is visible, the lower being buried in the raised flooring]. The basin is covered with a plain flat wooden lid. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, all of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of the font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.678611, -2.125278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 40′ 43″ N, 2° 7′ 31″ W
UTM: 30T 4725497 571668
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
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
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?]