Urbicain / Urbicáin / Urbikain
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 January 2015)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 31/3/2003)
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the partitioning of the inner basin is clearly not original, but a later addition -- notice the metal hasp of the cover still in place
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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unidentified
Scene Description: the sides of the basin are too eroded to discern the decoration on them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/4/2003)
view of church exterior - south porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover in context
![the dismantled font from Urbicain, as photographed inside, east end, the parish church at nearby Iriso [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150105001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the dismantled font from Urbicain, as photographed inside, east end, the parish church at nearby Iriso [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 January 2015)
view of church interior - west end - gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/4/2003)
view of church interior - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/4/2003)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/4/2003)
design element - motifs - ball - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken in March 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/4/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07998URB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S side [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: C. San Esteban, 6, 31421 Urbicáin, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located WSW of Turrillas, SE of Pamplona, in the Izagandoa valley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Sangüesa
Additional Comments: stolen font: wrongly reported stolen 8 March 2012 -- abandoned font: the church is almost totally abandoned, depending on a couple in their 80s to look after it; Andres Ortega warned us that it will probably be lost as soon as the wardens go away or pass away [NB: famous last words: the font discovered as appeared from this church in March 2012; in May 2014 the font was reported in the parish church at nearby Iriso].
Font Notes:
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Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV*: 563) as a baptismal font consisting of a basin on which the motifs are now lost, a conical base and a lower base ornamented with two mouldings and four ball motifs at 90-degree angles. Described in Domeño (1992) in the same terms. At this date [March 2003] the font appears very worn, especially the basin sides, although the lower base seems to have faired better; a plain flat wooden cover of unknown date has locking hardware. [The CMdeN mentions an octagonal holy-water stoup by the door but no date or other particulars -- not included in this Index]. Though not mentioned in the sources above, the inner basin of the font had been later divided using concrete to create spaces for the water, the oils, etc. Update 8 March 2012: both the font and the stoup are reported stolen in today's issue of Diario de Navarra [www.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/navarra/mas_navarra/sanchez_muniain_lamenta_hurto_una_pila_bautismal_urbicain_72964_2061.html] [accessed 8 March 2012] "El consejero de Cultura, Turismo y Relaciones Institucionales del Gobierno de Navarra, Juan Luis Sánchez de Muniáin, ha lamentado este jueves la sustracción de una pila bautismal del siglo XV, valorada en unos 9.000 euros, en Urbicáin, un pueblo abandonado del valle de Izagandoa, donde también han robado la pila del agua bendita." Update January 2015: the font was seen and photographed inside the church at nearby Iriso by Mikel Unanue for BSI on 18 May 2014; the font was dismantled but still retains the wooden coover. [NB: an e-mail from our local contact in the Izagaondoa valley, Simeón Hidalgo Valencia, unravels the 'mystery': the font was never stolen, as claimed by a poorly-informed Pamplona politician, but was moved for its protection -theft of objects in abandoned churches is rampant- by unidentified locals and taken to the church at Iriso].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Ortega for the March 2003 photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this font taken at the parish church of nearby Iriso.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 629254 4734602
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 179
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. IV*: 563