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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photography in Rioja Románica [https://www.riojaromanica.com/categorias/pilas-bautismales#] [accessed 18 November 2020]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2007 by juanje 2712 [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Iglesia_de_Ojacastro.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2011]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken in August 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the baptismal chapel

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07544OJA

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Julián y Santa Basilisa

Church Patron Saints: St. Julian & St. Basilisa [of Antioque - martyrs - †308]

Church Location: Calle San Pedro, 3, 26270 Ojacastro, La Rioja, Spain -- Tel.: +34 941 35 40 59

Country Name: Spain

Location: La Rioja, La Rioja

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the LR-111, 3-4 km NNE of Ezcaray, in the Valle del Alto Oja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the N side

Date: ca. 1190?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Oja-Tirón workshop

Cognate Fonts: several fonts of the same workshop in the area [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in López de Silanes Valgañón (2000) as a baptismal font probably of the 13th century, of a type not uncommon in the boundary area of Burgos-La Rioja: a hemispherical basin decorated with a vine [acanthus?] around the basin side, and with a ribbed pattern around the underbowl; pedestal base with round splaying lower base, both moulded. This last source (ibid.) gives the fonts at Baños de Rioja, Santasensio los Cantos, Santurde de Rioja, Ezcaray, Valgañón and Anguta [now at Valgañón]. Described in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) and in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a baptismal font of the Oja-Tirón workshop; these two sources suggest that this font probably had an inscription below the vine motif, like those at Eterna, Fresneda de la Sierra and Grañón, that would have dated to ca. 1190. The upper rim retains two metal staples for the old cover. The relief is very eroded now. Noted and illustrated in Rioja Románica [https://www.riojaromanica.com/categorias/pilas-bautismales#] [accessed 18 November 2020]: "La pila bautismal conservada en esta iglesia es de finales del siglo XII. Sobre una basa y un corto fuste descansa una taza con gallones verticales y un friso con motivos vegetales."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 500000 4688638`

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 117 cm*

Basin Total Height: 52 cm*

Height of Base: 45 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Sáenz Rodríguez (2004)]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: there may have been originally an inscription on the band below the vine [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008

López de Silanes Valgañón, F. J. Ignacio, Rutas románicas en La Rioja, Madrid: Encuentro, 2000

Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004