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B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - round
Scene Description: the pattern has tall round-headed arches or windows, ratrher than ribs; on two levels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pilar Rivera, 1997
Image Source: Image source: B&W photograph by Pilar Rivera, 1997; in Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia [http://www.euskomedia.org/ImgsAuna/46009101.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2010]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pilar Rivera, 1997
Image Source: Image source: B&W photograph by Pilar Rivera, 1997; in Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia [http://www.euskomedia.org/ImgsAuna/46009101.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 08490TAF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located north, and in the Merindad of, Olite
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery [probably not its original location]
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century[re-tooled?], Medieval [altered]
Font Notes:
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Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. III: 473) and in Domeño (1992): large medieval baptismal font with ribbed pattern ornamentation around the basin [NB: the CMdeN (ibid.) indicates that this medieval font has been modified or repaired ["ha sido arreglada"]]. The pattern is actually one of narrow round-heade arches or windows on two rows, all around the basin sides; the lower basi is moulded.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: a hemispherical dome, with carved arrises; the panels with carvings; pineapple (?) finial
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?]