Villaveta nr. Lónguida / Billabeta

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016

Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 July 2016)

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing a)the modern parttion of the inner well, and b)the paint and brushes used to deface the font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: the main portal of this church is on the north side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - north portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: two of the capitals to the right of the doorway

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail

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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail

Scene Description: showing some of the corbels said to be the work of the Maestro de Cabestany [cf. ChurchNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 May 2014 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: with the secondary portal

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: we were unable to determine whether the basin is partly built into the wall, or it has been cut to fit into the corner

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: while painting the wainscoting on the nave walls in 2014, the painters decided to exercise their colour-coordination abilities on the basin of the font

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view of stoup

Scene Description: late-Gothic

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view of stoup in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08530VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Purificación
Church Patron Saints: The Purification of St. Mary
Church Location: 31480 Villaveta, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Lónguida, Merindad de Sangüesa, 25 km E of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Cuenca de Lumbier-Aoiz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 12thC church with some corbels said to be by the Maestro de Cabestany [see http://www.arquivoltas.com/6-Navarra/Villaveta1.htm for a detailed visit to the sculpture in this church]
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. IV**: 136) and in Domeño (1992: 183): medieval baptismal font; cylindrical basin with hemispherical underbowl raised on a cylindrical pedestal base and a circular lower base/plinth, all plain except for the roll moulding across the lower side of the basin; the inner well of the basin is partitioned, but the partition is modern. A 24 May 2014 visit by Mikel Unanue [e-mail of 17 July 2016] to BSI] found the basin of the font covered in modern paint, the paint can and brushes still inside the inner well of the font; it appears that the painter who was doing the wainscoting of the nave just got carried away and painted the basin of the font using the same colour and paint, leaving the corpus delicti inside the font ["Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens"]. There is a wall-mounted holy-water stoup in the nave that may be late-Gothic but it is not listed in the CMdeN [cf. supra] description.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 630948 4736592

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining; the inside well was parttioned at a later date

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: Round, flat and plain; modern

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?]