Reta
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 December 2014)
Results: 13 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the irregularity of some arches indicates the work was done without previous marking of the stone [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - motifs - knob with scroll - 2
Scene Description: only at the front corners of the lower base
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the partition is a later alteration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the partition is a later alteration
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the old weathered stoup is located near the south entranceway (not visible here, but to the right of it)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 December 2014)
view of font and context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover
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 and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: against the north wall of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of stoup
Scene Description: both basin and base are much weathered; the base itself is probably 16th-century or later
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 April 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 December 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07999RET
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 31421 Reta, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the Izagandoa valley, in the Merindad de Sangüesa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Valle de Izagaondoa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche of the N wall [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, to Andrés Ortega and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to Simeón Hidalgo Valencia for his notes on this font.
Church Notes: for the Tetramorphos in this church see Simeón Hidalgo Valencia [http://elblogdesimeonhidalgo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/el-tetramorfos-de-reta-izagaondoa.html] [accessed 28 Decembre 2014]
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV*: 557-558) as a medieval baptismal font; the cylindrical basin is ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches in low-relief; the stem of the base is cylindrical and plain; the lower base has a roll moulding where it meets the stem and then splays to a square shape with a ball motif at each angle [NB: two of the sides are embeded in the north wall and therefore invisible]. Described in Domeño (1992: 173) as a Romanesque font in much the same terms. A flat wooden lid hinged about 2/3 back covers the font. Simeón Hidalgo Valencia (e-mail of 2 May 2014 to BSI) suggets the existence of a workshop in the valleys of Izagaondoa, Lizoáin, Unciti and Urraúl Bajo, which would include the fonts at Artáiz, Cemboráin, Grez, Idoate, Lérruz, Najurieta, Reta, Zuazu, and others in the area. Hidalgo Valencia (PDF article dated 21 February 2012 forwarded to BSI) writes about four Romanesque fonts in this valley of Izagaondoa: Zuazu, Idoate, Artaiz and Reta, being the latter the simplest in ornamentation; of the decorative work on this font HV states that the squeezing of the last arch at the end of the sequence of the arcade indicates the work was done without previous marking of the stone. HV notes that the present position of the font in the alcove opposite the entranceway is not the original, surely having been moved from the northwest end of the nave at some point; the internal division of the basin is also a later change, and HV advises that the inner well should be restored to its original state. A much weathered holy-water stoup has been placed in the nave, just inside the south entranceway; it is not clear whether the two parts, basin and base belong together; the base is 16th-century or later.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.73765,
1.44039
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: [cf. Font notes]
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?]
Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986