Villanueva de Puente la Reina / Iriberri / Hiriberri

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view of font and cover

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)

human figure - head - 4?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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)

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row

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)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08525VIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban de Villanueva de Puente la Reina

Font Location in Church: Half-built into the NW corner, beneath the W gallery

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen

Church Notes: 12thC church; much modified since

Church Address: Iglesia de San Esteban (despoblado de Villanueva) 31100 Villanueva, Navarra, Spain

Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Puente la Reina, 36 km SW of Pamplona, about 13 km N of Puente la Reina

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona

Additional Comments: altered font: partly built into the wall

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. V**: 564): baptismal font of the 12th century in the Romanesque style; the large roughly hemispherical basin is ornamented with two human faces on the sides, as well as with a row of ball motif around the underbowl; plain cylindrical pedestal base. An image from ca. 1943 shows the basin covered with a plain flat wooden lid. Described in the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) where it is noted that there are three human heads visible on the basin, two of tem partly hidden in the part of the font built into the wall, and that it is likely there is a fourth head completely hidden behind: "en el interior, bajo el coro, en el lado del evangelio, apreciamos una tosca pila bautismal empotrada en el muro, con unas medidas de 99 cm de diámetro y
80 cm de altura. La pila presenta como única decoración tres bosquejos de rostros humanos, dos de ellos parcialmente cubiertos por la yesería de la pared; no sería aventurado pensar que un cuarto estuviera totalmente oculto tras la pila."

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana for the image of this font from the Archivo Uranga

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 597159 4725108

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 3: 1200
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. V**: 564