Muniain de Arce / Muniain Artzibar / Muniáin de Arce

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08367MUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?), Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Santa Cecilia de Muniáin de Arce [disappeared; submerged ca. 2003]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, under the choir

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cecilia [aka Caecelia, Cecelia]

Church Notes: disappeared church [submerged ca. 2003]

Church Address: 31439 Muniáin de Arce, Navarra, Spain [disappeared]

Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: The abandoned [now submerged] village of Muniáin is located near Artozqui, in the valley and municipality of Arce. It was was submerged ca. 2003 by the Embalse [dam] de Itoiz, in its NW area, S of the NA-2040

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Merindad de Sangüesa

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV*: 137 and pl. 200); in Domeño (1992: 163): medieval baptismal font of the 13th century; hemispherical basin decorated with arrises; cylindrical base with a roll moulding at the top and two others about half-way down the stem. The photograph in CMdeN (ibid.) shows a flat plain wooden cover locked to the upper basin side with a short chain. [NB: we have no infomation on the whereabouts of the font after the hamlet and its church were submerged ca. 2003]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 635661 4746421

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.858333, -1.339444

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 51′ 30″ N, 1° 20′ 22″ 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: flat and plain

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