Muro de Cameros / Muro en Cameros

Described in López Domech (1985) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period ornamented with a potent cross on its side. Listed in Cobreros (1993) as a Romanesque font. López de Silanes Valgañón (2000) describes this font as somewhat in the style of that at Laguna de Cameros, but with the added symbol of an inscribed pattée cross. Noted and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period from the Sierra de Cameros workshop; this author (ibibd.) also informs that the font was originally located in a chapel beneath the tower, but was moved to its present location at the west end of the nave in 1621. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a baptismal font of the Sierra de Cameros workshop, in the same style as those at Jalon and Laguna de Cameros, though it lacks the human figures of the others, and adds one of a fantastic animal instead; dated to the mid-12th century; like the others, it shaped somewhere between a tub and a hemispheric basin the sides of which are decorated with an arcade of mixed horseshoe and round arches, as well as the potent cross and the fantastic animal mentioned above; below those it has a band of circle motifs; it is raised on a round base with ball decoration and a moulding; on a two-step plinth; there are two metal staples on the upper rim, that fit a flat wooden cover. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) informs that the font was located in the 'Capilla de la Cruz' until 1621, at which time it was moved to its present location at the west end of the nave.