Lorca / Lorka
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all aroound
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Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
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Scene Description: nave towards the East
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Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 7/4/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08052LOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador de Lorca
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the W end, N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Church Notes: late-12thC church documented 13thC; modified 18th, 20thC
Church Address: 31292 Lorca, Navarre, Spain -- Tel.: +34 610 66 24 32
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-111, in the municipality of Yerri, 8-9 km E of Estella/Lizarra, 35 km SW of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Font Notes:
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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. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/navarra_Lorca.pdf] [accessed 25 May 2025]: "en una de las capillas situadas a los pies del templo, en el lado del evangelio, encontramos la pila bautismal coetánea de la fábrica románica, compuesta por una
gran taza gallonada apoyada sobre una especie de capitel con decoración vegetal de hojas que se vuelven en bolas. Es una lástima que este elemento escultórico más esmerado que el resto de la fábrica no se conserve a la vista en toda su dimensión."
gran taza gallonada apoyada sobre una especie de capitel con decoración vegetal de hojas que se vuelven en bolas. Es una lástima que este elemento escultórico más esmerado que el resto de la fábrica no se conserve a la vista en toda su dimensión."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info] for his images of font and church. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 586431 4724998
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.672597, -1.945194
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 40′ 21.35″ N, 1° 56′ 42.7″ W
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, p. 40, 62, 162 and pl. 25
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 1: 362; vol. 2: 798
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. II**: 718 and pl. 766