Abaurrea Baja
Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 4 records
LB01: human figure - head
Scene Description: several small ones, in high relief
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
LB02: design element - motifs - spiral
Scene Description: a/p Domeño's description (1992)
LB03: symbol - branch
Scene Description: a/p Domeño's description (1992)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
FontID: 04475ABA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the Aézcoa valley, in the merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: Under the choir
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV*: 9) as a stone baptismal font consisting of a plain basin raised on a polygonal base adorned with crude motifs around the top.
Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 132 and pl. 161 [cf. NB below]) as a medieval baptismal font; plain hemispheric basin mounted on a polygonal base ornamented with high-relief heads, spiral, branch with leaves, etc. The stone is very course and the workmanship rather crude [NB: plate 161, p. 132, in this source has been mislabelled as Abaurrea Alta; it corresponds to the font at Abaurrea Baja]. [We are grateful to Asunción Domeño, to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier for the information on and images of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Notes: Although only the lower part is visible in the image source (Domeño, 1992: pl. 161), the two-tone wooden cover appears tall and with some sort of ornamentation.
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?]