Ollobarren

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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pampona, Spain)

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

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pampona, Spain)

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

LB01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one on each side, between the corner heads.

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

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

LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

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

LBH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the upper volume of the base oulier

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

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

view of church exterior - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ollobarren" -- possibly from the original 12th-13thC church?

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2021 by Patxi Txokarro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ollobarren_2021.jpg] [accessed 28 January 2025]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ollobarren en el municipio de Metauten. Detrás, la Sierra de Lokiz. Navarra, España"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2017 by Basotxerri [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metauten_-_Ollobarren_01.jpg] [accessed 28 January 2025]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pampona, Spain)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 08414OLL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Calle Mayor, 31241 Ollobarren, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located off local road NA-7310, in the municipality of Metauten, Merindad de Estella, 56 km from Pamplona

Font Location in Church: In the N side, under the choir

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Medieval

Cognate Fonts: The font at Metauten, in the same municipality, especially the base; also the base at Ganuza

Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; re-built 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. II**: 367); described and ilustrated in Domeño (1992: 167 and pl. 188): medieval baptismal font; hemispherical basin decorated with a thick roll moulding on the side followed by a rope moulding below; the inside well of the basin has been divided at a later date creating two halves: one has the original depth and hemispherical shape; the other has been filled and now has three smaller receptacles for the holy oils, etc.; there is one iron staple still in the upper rim from the old cover hardware. The base is capital-shaped -quadrangular at the top and cylindrical at the bottom; the upper volume is ornamented with human heads at the corners, plus a human face on each side between the corner heads; the lower cylindrical volume is thinner and plain except for a roll moulding about half-way down [NB: there may be a lower base buried under the boards of the raised church floor]. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pampona, Spain, for the image of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.6875, -2.134167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41′ 15″ N, 2° 8′ 3″ W

UTM: 30T 571081 4725840

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: [cf. Font notes]

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: one iron staple from the old cover hardware still visible in the upper rim

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?]