Lorca
Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
Results: 4 records
B01:
design element - patterns - ribbed
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Image Source: Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
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LB01:
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
view of church interior
Scene Description: nave towards the East
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2003
Image Source: Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08052LOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial del Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located on the N-111, 8-9 km E of Estella/Lizarra, in the municipality of Yerri
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info] for his images of font and church
Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-) and in Domeño (1992): medieval baptismal font of the late 12th century in the Romanesque style; large roughly hemispherical basin ornamented with broad ribs; the base is a tiny squat capital-like pedestal with large -for the size of the base- foliage motifs. The Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) notes a few Navarrese fonts with similar -though not identical- decoration in Cabanillas, Ardanaz de Egues, Lorca, Eransus and Zunzarren.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: appears with a lid on the basin in a ca. 1992 photograph in Domeño (1992: pl. 25)
REFERENCES
Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]
