Javier / Etxaberri / Xabier / Xavier

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design element - motifs - medallion

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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

symbol - shield - blank

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the 17th-century (?) re-building of the medieval church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca [www.flickr.com/photos/eltb/6233273256/in/photostream/] [accessed 28 Januay 2012]

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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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

view of font

Scene Description: the font and the castle of Javier

Image Source: engraving [ca. 1878?] by E. Alos of a drawing by Tomas Padró, in Mañé i Flaquer (1876-1880)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ignacio Zabala

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 28 January 2012)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02365JAV

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Anunciación

Church Patron Saints: The Annunciation to St. Mary

Church Location: Pza. de San Francisco Javier 4, Javier, 31411 Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: 948 884 000

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located In the area of Sangüesa

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona

Font Location in Church: In its own chapel, inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for their image of this font. We are also grateful to Ignacion Zabala for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The font of this church was illustrated in an engraving in Mañé i Flaquer (1876-1880). Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- ) and in Domeño (1992): octagonal baptismal font of the 15th century in Late-Gothic style ; the basin is octagonal with tapering sides that are ornamented with blind shields and medallions; a moulding divides basin sides from underbowl; the underbowl being a plain chamfer; the stem of the base is octagonal and plain, as is the lower base; the font stands on two plain octagonal plinths. The font appears now much damaged, especially the upper rim [another sharpening stone for the sabres of Napoleon's hussars?]; the sides also may have been altered. This is the font in which St. Francis Xavier was baptised, as atested in a much stylised painting reproduced in López de Aberasturi & Pérez Simón (2007) [NB: unfortunately the source does not give particulars of the original painting]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 646298 4717938

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: [irregular]

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [NB: the upper rim is very damaged and may have had metal anchors from an old cover]

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990

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?]

López de Aberasturi, Antón, Javier, el castillo redescubierto, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 2007

Mañé i Flaquer, Joan, El oasis: viaje al país de los fueros (Provincias Vascongadas y Navarra), Barcelona: Imprenta de Jaime Jepus Roviralta, 1876-1880

Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986

Ramón Corpas, Juan, Curiosidades de Navarra, Madrid: El País, 1996