Javier / Etxaberri / Xabier / Xavier
Image copyright © Ignacio Zabala, 2012
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 28 January 2012)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ignacio Zabala, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Ignacio Zabala
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 28 January 2012)
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Scene Description: the font and the castle of Javier
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving [ca. 1878?] by E. Alos of a drawing by Tomas Padró, in Mañé i Flaquer (1876-1880)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
design element - motifs - medallion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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Scene Description: the 17th-century (?) re-building of the medieval church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2011
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02365JAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de la Anunciación
Font Location in Church: In its own chapel, inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): The Annunciation to St. Mary
Church Address: Pza. de San Francisco Javier 4, Javier, 31411 Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: 948 884 000
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located In the area of Sangüesa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Additional Comments: famous person font: this is the font in which St. Francis Xavier, missionary of the Indies, was baptised, probably on April 7, 1506, the day of his birth, or soon thereafter
Font Notes:
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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]
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
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 System: centre hole in basin
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, vol. 6: 288
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 157 and plate 181 on p. 158
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. IV**: 11 and pl. 6
- López de Aberasturi, Antón, Javier, el castillo redescubierto, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 2007, p. 192 and fig. 23 (p.75)
- Mañé i Flaquer, Joan, El oasis: viaje al país de los fueros (Provincias Vascongadas y Navarra), Barcelona: Imprenta de Jaime Jepus Roviralta, 1876-1880, vol. 1: 267
- Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986, p. 308
- Ramón Corpas, Juan, Curiosidades de Navarra, Madrid: El País, 1996, p. 52