Arbeiza / Arbeitza

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 December 2019)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2016 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 9 December 2019)

view of font

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

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding

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

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

human figure - head

Scene Description: several (8?), at least one of which is bearded; some at 90-degree angles, others between the latter

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

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding - double

Scene Description: at the very bottom of the base

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

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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04499ARB

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Object Details: capital

Font Date: ca. 1200?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín Obispo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery, S side, in an alcove

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours

Church Notes: medieval church probably ca. 1200; modified 16th and 18thC

Church Address: Plaza San Martin Enparantza, 1, 31241 Arbeiza, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: 948 540 113

Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the NA-132-A, in the Valle de Allin, 2-3 km W of Estella, 30 km WSW of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Merindad de Estella / Tierra Estella

Additional Comments: composite font? (is the base a re-cycled capital?)

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. II*: 75; illustrated and described in Domeño (1992: 135 and figs. 163, 164) as a Romanesque baptismal font of ca. 1200: the large hemispheric basin is plain except for a horizontal moulding around its middle; the upper rim is damaged; the base is shaped like a round capital with four (?) large protruding heads at 90-degree angles; between each pair of heads there is a lower-relief face; the lower end of the capital has a double roll moulding [NB: it is possible that these two parts may not belong together]. The entry for Arbeiza in the Gran Enciclopedia de Navarra [www.enciclopedianavarra.com/?page_id=3662] [accessed 14 December 2019] does not mention the font.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the images of this font. We are also grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 576726 4725088

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

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: round and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 112, 135 and figs. 163, 164
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. II*: 75