Berriozar

Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 5 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
BBU01: symbol - star - in a circle

Scene Description: a band of 4-, 6- and 8-point stars right at the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
BBU02: symbol - cross - in a circle
LB01: design element - motifs - ball - 4
INFORMATION
FontID: 04598BER
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the 6 km NW of Pamplona
Font Location in Church: In a chapel of the N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font at Azoz, also in Navarra
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font from their Archivo Uranga
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990, v. 2: 397 and ill. on p. 398) and in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. V*: 49 and pl. 47): Romanesque, chalice-shaped baptismal font of the 12th or 13th century; the round basin has a band of 4-, 6- and 8-point stars at the rim, the rest of the basin being ornamented with ribbed pattern all the way to the base. The base is a cylindrical pedestal with four ball motifs right under the basin. The lower base is built into the floor of the church. The font has a plain wooden cover, flat and modern. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) with a basin similar to the one in Azoz, on an inverted capital, like the one in nearby Berrioplano.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 108 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurement a/p the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat plain wooden lid; modern
REFERENCES
Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]