Undiano

INFORMATION

FontID: 08623UND

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín de Tours

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located in the Cendea de Cizur, municipality of the same name, just southeast of Pamplona

Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel, N side

Date: 1628

Century and Period: 17th century(early)

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Martín de Urquía

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. V*: 536, 537): baptismal font with a large hemispherical basin made by Martín de Urquía in 1628, a stone-mason from Pamplona who was responsible as well for some of the work on the tower and bases of the altar [the CMdeN (ibid.) gives his fees for the total of his work as 32,000 reales].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]