Iriberri

Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 3 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
view of church exterior
INFORMATION
FontID: 07757IRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Natividad
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Iriberri is now an abandoned village; it is located in the municipality of Leoz, Merindad de Olite, between Leoz itself and Iracheta. The church is located near the Cabo de Armería [a fortified building]
Historical Region: Merindad de Olite
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , v. III: 155 and pl. 217), and in Domeño (1992: 58, 155 and fig. 58): Gothic baptismal font of the 13th century; the hemispherical basin is ornamented with a blind arcade of trefoil arches all around; the CMdeN source image [which appears to be the same one displayed in Domeño] shows a basin lying on the ground and displaying clear evidence of damage and repairs to the upper rim. Another image source [Archivo Uranga photograph of ca. 1943], probably earlier, shows the basin mounted on a plain cylindrical base and a circular lower base; a flat wooden cover appears on it; the repair on one of the upper sides, at the rim, and the indentation on the opposite side are probably the result of the removal of the hardware of the original cover [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, 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
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: visible in the ca. 1943 image source
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
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?]