Tudela No. 1 / Tudela de Navarra

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2010
Standing permission
Results: 7 records
B01: coat of arms - unidentified
B02: design element - patterns - ribbed - with inserts
B03: design element - motifs - ball
UB01: coat of arms - unidentified
view of church exterior - cloister
view of church exterior - south door
INFORMATION
FontID: 07847TUD
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Catedral de Santa María [before the 18th century it was a collegiate church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located on the A-15/NA-134, 75 km S of Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche of the N nave
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. I: 255) as a baptismal font of the 16th century; the hemispherical basin is ornamented with ribbed pattern and ball motif, as well as a shield charged with a coat of arms much too worn now to allow for identification; another such shield, equally deteriorated, adorns the base. [NB: Domeño (1992: 110) states that the medieval baptismal font was lost with the first renovation -Renaissance period?- of this church; the original Romanesque church dates from the late 12th century, and was built on the foundations of the 9th-11th century mosque here]. The basin of the 16th-century font has been reinforced with a metal band just below the upper rim. [NB: we have a report from Mikel Unanue that a second font -octagonal and plain, probably medieval- was in the cathedral but not on display [covered in packing tape! -- source: e-mail (28 June 2010) from Mikel Unanue].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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?]