Torres de Elorz
INFORMATION
FontID: 08503TOR
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 in the valley and municipality of Elorz, Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: In the N side, in the baptismal chapel
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. IV*: 266 and pl. 377); described in Domeño (1992: 178): hemispherical basin ornamented with ribbed pattern all around; the base consists of two pieces: the upper is a capital ornamented with a row of ball motif on the upper part; the lower piece of the base is a plain cylindrical pedestal. The photograph in the CMdeN (ibid.) shows the basin covered with a plain wooden lid. [the holy-water stoup by the door is inscribed with the date 1746 and therefore not entered in this Index]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
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
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]