Echano No. 1 / Etxano

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Image Source: digital photograph August 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 11/8/2003)

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph August 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 11/8/2003)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08662ECH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia [aka Ermita] de San Pedro de Echano
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: mid-12thC church
Church Address: 31396 Olóriz, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-5010, 3 km E of Olóriz, 27 km S of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: La Valdorba
Additional Comments: damaged font: the upper rim of the basin is damaged, partly missing
Font Notes:
Baptismal font, perhaps from the medieval period; the basin is cylindrical, with a hemispherical underbowl, but the upper rim is damaged, some of it missing; cylindrical base with ring moulding at the top, where it meets the underbowl; circular lower base. [cf. Index entry for Echano No. 2 for a baptismal font believed locally to have been originally from this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Ortega, of www.romanicoennavarra.info for the photographs of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 615471 4721140
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.634056, -1.591667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 38′ 2.6″ N, 1° 35′ 30″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round