Roncesvalles No. 1

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Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2008

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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
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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

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)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 06959RON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Colegiata de Santa María [orig. from Amunarrizqueta]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the mountain pass of the Camino de Santiago
Font Location in Church: The font serves now as fountain in the cloister of the Colegiata de Roncesvalles
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
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.
Font Notes:
Listed in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- ). Described in Domeño (1992) as a medieval baptismal font, originally from Amunarrizqueta [Amunarrizqueta is a small village about 25 km ESE of Pamplona]; 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 Collegiata de Roncesvalles.

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
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]