Larragueta

Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
LB01: design element - architectural - capital - leaf
LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 08309LAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Ansoáin, Merindad de Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Under the choir
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. V*: 56) and in Domeño (1992: 158): medieval baptismal font [NB: Domeño has it as Romanesque whereas the CMdeN simply as medieval]; large hemispherical basin ornamented with ribbed pattern; the base is monolithic but divided into two volumes: the upper is a foliated capital; the lower is octagonal and decorated with mouldings. The ca. 1943 source image shows a flat plain wooden cover on the basin. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font]
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: flat and plain wooden lid
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?]