Torralba del Rio No. 1 / Torralba del Río

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. II**: 524); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 178 and pl. 29): medieval baptismal font [the CMdeN (ibid.) dates it to the 16th century]; the hemispherical basin is decorated with a wide moulding at the upper rim and with wide-spread vertical ribs all around the sides; the underbowl has a zig-zag moulding across as well; plain cylindrical pedestal base and circular lower base [most of the latter is buried in the raised wooden floor of the church]. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, and to Javier Torrens, all of Pamplona, Spain, for the photographs of this font]. [cf. Index entries for Torralba del Rio Nos. 2, 3 for two holy-water stoups of the same period in the north side of the church]