Valganon No. 2 / Valgannon / Valgañón / Valgrañón

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 garland around the upper basin side, and with a ribbed pattern around the sides and underbowl; pedestal base formed by a foliated capital and a lower base recycled from a Romanesque window [according to this same source]. This last source (ibid.) gives the fonts at Baños de Rioja, Santasensio los Cantos, Santurde de Rioja, Ojacastro, Ezcaray and Valgañón No. 1 as cognates. Described in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) and in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a baptismal font originally from the abandoned church of Anguta, moved to Valgañón in the 1970s; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin the sides of which are decorated with a double zigzag creating lozenge motifs, and crossed semi-circles, an ornamentation that is much more geometrical than the one found in the fonts of the Oja-Tirón workshop, to which this font may be related; the underbowl has the usual ribbed pattern of this workshop. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) notes that the present base may be a replacement, as there is an earlier drawing showing a round base with torsade decoration that is more typical of the workshop than the current re-used (?) capital decorated with foliage. The entry for this place in Rioja Románica [https://www.riojaromanica.com/categorias/pilas-bautismales#] [accessed 23 November 2020]: "En Valgañón encontramos dos pilas bautismales: en el baptisterio la de la propia iglesia [...] y otra procedente de Anguta y situada en el pórtico [...] La de esta iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Tres Fuentes es de finales del siglo XII posee un pie formado por una basa y un fuste corto con rombos que sostiene una copa gallonada rematada por un friso de roleos que encierran hojas. De la pila procedente de Anguta se conserva la copa apoyada sobre un capitel y un basa reutilizados." [cf. Index entry for Valgañón No. 1 for a similar font in this church].