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
Font ID: 04744FIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century (?) / 16th century(?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial [abacial] de Santa María de Fitero [aka Santa María de Niencebas]
Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Cistercian monastery founded 1140; destroyed; re-built 1247; church became parochial 16thC
Church Address: Plaza de la Iglesia, 12, 31593 Fitero, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 77 66 00
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-160, about 25 km W of Tudela, about 100 km SSW of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe the Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 594560 4656638
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.056111, -1.857222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 3′ 22″ N, 1° 51′ 26″ W
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: * García Sesma (1989) [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 109, 150 and ill. 151
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. I: 175
- García Sesma, Manuel, La iglesia cisterciense de Fitero, Logroño: Gráficas Ochoa, 1989, p. [113]-114