Salinas de Oro No. 1 / Jaitz

Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
design element - patterns - ribbed
view of church exterior in context - east end
INFORMATION
FontID: 08468SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: C. San Pedro, 6, 31175 Salinas de Oro, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 54 22 28
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-700, in the Valle de Guesálaz, 25 km NE of Estella, 27 km W of Pamplona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche of the N wall, near the W end
Century and Period: 13th century (?), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font
Church Notes: 16thC church with later modifications
Font Notes:
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Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. II**: 450); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 175 and pls. 194. 195): goblet-shaped baptismal font of the Gothic period [the CMdeN (ibid.) dates to the 13th century]; the basin is slightly rounded but almost conical and ornamented with ribbed pattern all around up to the upper rim; the base is octagonal with graded mouldings at top and bottom, the stem decorated with a blind arcade of tall round arches. The flat plain wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.775278, -1.888056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 46′ 31″ N, 1° 53′ 17″ W
UTM: 30T 590963 4736460
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: goblet-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
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?]