Villanueva de Yerri No. 1

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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B01: human figure - head

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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: vertical and horizontal

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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

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view of font

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

FontID: 08524VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Loacted in the municipality of Valle de Yerri, Merindad de Estella
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century[base only] -- 17th century[basin], Medieval [composite]
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. II**: 745) as a baptismal font of the 16th century. Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 182 and pl. 198 and detail on p. 181) as a composite baptismal font made up of a medieval quadrangular base ornamented with a crude human face at the front framed in a grid of vertical and horizontal mouldings; the hemispherical basin ornamented with a ribbed pattern is 17th-century. [We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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?]