Sansomain / Sansomáin
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Image Source: digital photograph July 2003 by Andrés Ortega
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/7/2003)
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Copyright Statement: digital photograph July 2003
Image Source: digital photograph July 2003 by Andrés Ortega
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 3/7/2003)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a [ca.1943] B&W photograph, Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08471SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Early Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro de Sansomáin
Font Location in Church: In the N side, under the steps leading to the choir
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; renovated in 2003
Church Address: C. San Pedro, 3, 31395 Sansomáin, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the AP-15, in the municipality of Leoz, about 25 km S of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Olite
Font Notes:
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Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. III: 166) and in Domeño (1992: 176); early-Gothic baptismal font of the initial period of the church [ca. 1200]; hemispherical basin ornamented with ribbed pattern and raised on a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with several roll mouldings; two-step circular plinth. Flat plain wooden cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, photographers Larrión & Pimoulier and Andrés Ortega, of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 611142 4715448
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.583444, -1.645559
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 35′ 0.4″ N, 1° 38′ 44.01″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two (plus two-step plinth)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
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, p. 40, 176
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. III: 166