Liberri

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arris

Scene Description: all around the basin

LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: about half-way down

LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the bottom of the stem of the base

INFORMATION

FontID: 08324LIB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Ginés
Church Patron Saints: St. Genesius of Arles [aka Genès, Geniès. Gennis, Gennys]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Lónguida, Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: Under the choir
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 122 and pl. 143); described in Domeño (1992: 161): medieval baptismal font; hemispherical basin with arris all around making the outer perimeter polygonal; cylindrical base with rope moulding about half-way down and a roll moulding at the bottom where it joins with the hemispherical lower base. The illustration in the CMdeN shows a plain flat wooden cover on the font. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

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?]
Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]