Urroz Villa / Urroz-Villa

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle

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BBU02: symbol - star - in a circle

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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle - 4

Scene Description: one on each side

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photgraphers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08026URR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located near Aoiz, Merindad de Sangüesa

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the crossing, N side chapel

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: Fonts at Aldaba, Azoz, Echarri, Ollacarizqueta and Ubani, according to the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?, vol. V**: 75)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra (1990, v. 11: 258). Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 575 and pl. 688) as a medieval baptismal font; large hemispherical basin ornamented with a stylised rope motif at the rim; below it is a band alternating hexagons with circles that contain rather complex geometrical motifs; the rest of the sides and underbowl are covered in slightly oblique ribbed pattern; the pedestal base is square with moulded corners and 6-point flowers or stars inscribed. It is interesting to note that the illustration in the CMdeN [cf. supra] shows the font mounted on what appears to be a plinth with a raised border and a drain side, a rare occurrence in Navarra, and in Spain itself; it is probably a mill stone re-used as a suppoort for the font. Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 181 and pl. 49) [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photgraphers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font] [The CMdeN (ibid.) mentions a holy-water stoup in the south side, by the door: tetra-lobed basin raised on a cylindrical base and a pyramidal lower base -- not dated -- not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

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?]