Fitero

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

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

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 04744FIT
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located on the N-693, W of Tudela
Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1980- ). In García Sesma (1989), who dates to 1534 and gives the name of the first baptizand ["Data de 1534 y la primera criatura bautizada en ella fue un hijo del vecino Sancho Lorea, a quien se puso por nombre Juan de la Pila, por esta circunstancia"] [NB: it is an unlikely date for such an early-looking font, but there is no ambiguity as the author describes both the font and the uncharacteristic cruciferous squat base]. Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992) as a medieval baptismal font, probably from the old monastery church; very crude hemispheric basin raised directly on a cruciform lower base, all plain [NB: an 18th-century ceramic font claimed to have been made in the monastery itself exists at this church]. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe the Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 14 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 102 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 130 cm*
Basin Depth: 52 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Measurements a/p García Sesma (1989)

REFERENCES

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?]
García Sesma, Manuel, La iglesia cisterciense de Fitero, Logroño: Gráficas Ochoa, 1989