Roncesvalles No. 1 / Amunarrizqueta
Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008
Image and permission received
Results: 6 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch or window
Scene Description: notice the large crack running diagonally from the upper rim leftwards to the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2008 by Dr. Brian Catlos
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2008 by Dr. Brian Catlos
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received
LB02: design element - motifs - ball - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2008 by Dr. Brian Catlos
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received
view of font in context
Scene Description: the font already in its new location, in the Colegiata of Roncesvalles, now serving as garden ornament
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2008 by Dr. Brian Catlos
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received
view of font
Scene Description: the font already in its new location, in the Colegiata of Roncesvalles, now serving as garden ornament
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received [e-mail nov. 15/2002]
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Photograph of the font ca. 1950 in its original location at Amunarrizqueta
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06959RON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Colegiata de Santa María
Font Location in Church: Outside; the font serves now as fountain in the cloister of the Colegiata de Roncesvalles
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the church of San Bartolomé de Amunarrizqueta, now in ruins
Church Address: C. San Bartolomé de Amunarrizqueta, 2, 31395 Amunarrizqueta, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Roncesvalles is located off the N-135, in the mountain pass of the Camino de Santiago -- Amunarrizqueta is a small village located 35 km ESE of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Additional Comments: recycled font: originally from a village south of Pamplona / re-cycled font now a fountain / disused font / damaged font
Font Notes:
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Listed in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- ). Described in Domeño (1992) as a medieval baptismal font, originally from Amunarrizqueta; the basin is roughly hemispherical and ornamented with a blind arcade the columns of which rest on prismatic bases; the stem of the base is cylindrical with a roll moulding lower down; the lower base has a rounded upper level, with four ball motifs, and a square lower one; the whole is raised on a round plinth and had a flat wooden cover while in its location at Amunarrizqueta. The font is now [1990+] in the Colegiata de Roncesvalles, located in the garden of the cloister, without a cover and exposed to the elements; it already has a large crack from top of the basin to the base that appears to have been roughly repaired. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008), where it is reported in use as a fountain in the Colegiata de Roncesvalles.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, for their photograph of this font from the Archivo Uranga. We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for her 2003 photograph of this font in its new location, and to Dr. Brian Catlos for his 2008 photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 618009 4720609
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.628889, -1.560833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 37′ 44″ N, 1° 33′ 39″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 62, 173-174
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. III: 141