Azuelo
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
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design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: very eroded now -- notice also the notch in the upper rim, damage probably related to a font cover anchoring
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2022
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Capitel firmado por SANCIVS"
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2022
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04585AZU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial [antes monasterio] de San Jorge
Font Location in Church: In the N side, West end of the monastery church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: Benedictine monastery documented 992
Church Address: Azuelo, 31228, Navarre, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-7205, right at the border with the province of Logroño, 80 km ESE of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Valle de Aguilar
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?); in Domeño (1992); medieval baptismal font probably of the early 12th century, the date of the church itself; the bucket-shaped basin is raised on a cylindrical base, both plain, except for what appears to be a narrow band of ornamentation at the upper basin side. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) as one of a series of plain medieval fonts in Navarra at Muniain de Guesalaz, Arroniz, Learza, Oteiza, Echavarri, Azuelo, Etayo, Ubago, Mues, Cabrega, Murieta, Piedramillera and Villamayor de Monjardin, in the Estella region, as well as those in the valleys of Oloriz, , Garinoain and Muruzabal de Andion, as plain medieval fonts in the area. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 553323 4716602
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 40, 112, 140-141
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 2: 830
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. II*: 338 and pl. 347
- Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]