Olejua / Olexoa

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image by Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a frame of crossed flat vertical and horizontal

Image Source: digital image by Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row "hot cross bun" motifs in tghe rectangles made by the mouldings on the sides

Image Source: digital image by Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: a row

Image Source: digital image by Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08402OLE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Muneta

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santiago

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side

Church Patron Saint(s): St. James

Church Notes: 13thC church; modified 16thC

Church Address: C. Mayor, 7, 31281 Olejua, Navarra, Spain

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

Directions to Site: Located off the NA-6340, 57 km SW of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Merindad de Estella

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992): medieval baptismal font {the CMdeN (ibid.). Described in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008)]. Romanesque baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin ornamented with a frame of horizontal and vertical flat moulding/tape motif wit a ball motif [these ball motifs have a cross-incision, looking much like "hot cross buns"]; the basin is raised on a concave cylindrical base and a circular lower base; the latter is probably an piece alien to this font as can be gathered from the type of stone, the shape and the ornamentation on it, a band of inscribed six-petal floral motifs. The upper sides of the basin and rim show evidence of a crude restoration with modern cement. A tallish prismatical cover of modern manufacture stands on the font now [this type of cover is not common in Navarre, but there are two others recorded in this area: Iturgoyen and Ugar]: the rim-buffet type with front panels open to give access to the basin well.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pampona, Spain, for the image of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 570500 4719439

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.624167, -2.140278

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 37′ 27″ N, 2° 8′ 25″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 43, 112, 167 and pl. 15, 186
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. 2: 924
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], II**: 426