Zabalceta / Zabaltzeta

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2

Scene Description: one at each end of the cylindrical pedestal base

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

LB02: design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: just above the lower moulding of the base

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

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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: 08537ZAB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial of San Lorenzo

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Calle San Lorenzo, 31422 Zabalceta, Navarra, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located off the NA-234, in the municipality of Valle de Unciti, SW of Unciti, 20 km SE of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Cuenca de Lumbier-Aoiz / Merindad de Sangüesa

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, all of Pamplona, Spain, for the photograph of the font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. IV**: 483); described and illustrated in Domeño (1992: 183 and pl. 199): medieval baptismal font; hemispherical basin ornamented with ribbed pattern; the base is a cylindrical pedestal decorated with a roll moulding at each end and, just above the lower moulding, a set of ball motifs alternating with partial roll mouldings. A ca. 1992 photograph shows a wooden polygonal (hexagonal?) pyramidal cover of the rim-buffet type, with panel openings to provide access to the basin well.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 622066 4732157

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Polygonal (hexagonal?) pyramid

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?]