Murieta No. 1
Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 July 2020)
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view of church exterior - southwest end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Asier Iturralde Sarasola. 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2018 by Asier Iturralde Sarasola [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murietako_Doneztebe_eliza_Foruen_plazako_frontoitik.jpg] [accessed 15 July 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery -- only the basin is original; the stem and the lower base are later replacements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2020 by Pedro Novella
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 July 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08370MUR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban / Murietako Doneztebe eliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 31280 Murieta, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 53 46 23
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-132-A, 8-9 km W of Estella, 57 km WSW of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Comarca de Valdega / Estella Oriental, Merindad de Estella
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Transitional? / Early Gothic? [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Novella for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: early-Gothic 13thC church, mudh altered in the Baroque period
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-) and in Domeño (1992): medieval baptismal font of the original date of the church, the 13th century, in proto- or early-Gothic style; plain hemispherical basin. Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) as one of a series of plain medieval fonts in Navarra at Muniain de Guesalaz, Arroniz, Learza, Oteiza, Echavarri, Azuelo, Etayo, Ubago, Mues, Cabrega, Murieta, Piedramillera and Villamayor de Monjardin, in the Estella region, as well as those in the valleys of Oloriz, , Garinoain and Muruzabal de Andion, as plain medieval fonts in the area. [NB: if the dates were compatible, could the font in the porch have been damaged early on and replaced by the one now inside the church?] [cf. BSI entry for Murieta No. 2 for another font here, kept in the porch]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.655895,
-2.153529
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 39′ 21.22″ N,
2° 9′ 12.7″ W
UTM: 30T 569378 4722951
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
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?]
