Muruarte de Reta / Muru Artederreta / Tiebas-Muruarte de Reta

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Results: 6 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

BBU01: design element - motifs - ball - in a scotia

a row of them just below the rim
Scene Description: a row of them just below the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

one at each end of the stem of the base; the lower base is made of several of them
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem of the base; the lower base is made of several of them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

P01: human figure - head? - 4

at 90-degrees of the lower base volume; very worn (they may have been just ball or knob motifs)
Scene Description: at 90-degrees of the lower base volume; very worn (they may have been just ball or knob motifs)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font and cover

Note the presence of the old cover and the absence of the square plinth
Scene Description: Note the presence of the old cover and the absence of the square plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07760MUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Artaiz; also the basins at Elorz, Auza, etc., all in Navarra
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban de Muruarte de Reta
Font Location in Church: Inside, in a N side alcove
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: 13thC church; much modified since
Church Address: Calle San Esteban, 7, 31398 Muruarte de Reta, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 29 10 37
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the AP-15, in the municipality of Tiebas, 14 km of Pamplona city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Cuenca de Pamplona
Font Notes:
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 448); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 165 and fig. 185) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, probably ca. 1200; the basin is of a type common in Navarra in this period, rather shallow and almost cylindrical, the sides ornamented with a row of ball motif within a scotia at the upper side and a neat arcade of round arches below [cf. a similar font at Artaiz; also the basins at Elorz, Auza, etc., all with entries in this Index]; the base is a plain cylinder with roll mouldings at both ends; the lower base is made of two thick roll mouldings, the lower volume with heads (?) at 90-degree angles; the small square plinth is plain and probably modern [it does not appear in our ca. 1943 source image from the Archivo Uranga which shows the font with a wooden prismatic cover no longer on the font now]. The basin has been either recarved or drastically cleaned.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier, all of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 609308 4724786
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.667778, -1.666111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 40′ 4″ N, 1° 39′ 58″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the lid is no longer found on the font

REFERENCES

  • Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990, vol. 7: 476
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 86 fn66
  • Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 62, 165 and fig. 185
  • García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. IV**: 448
  • Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986, p. 287