Pamplona No. 3

On-site notes: baptismal font -perhaps of the medieval period- consisting of a hemispherical basin raised on a a short round pedestaland a square lower base; the sides of the basin are ornamented with ribbed pattern and there are remains of a moulding at the upper rim; the base is decorated with a combination torus-scotia-torus; the lower base is square and plain {NB: the pedestal base may not be the original of this font]. There is no record available of the origin of this font; it is now [August 2003] serving as a patio ornament in the private residence locally known as "Colegio Huarte" [the name originates in the function this building served throughout the 19th and early-20th centuries, an educational institution with some illustriuous pupils (Pio Baroja?)]. The font is cracked and its use as planter is contributing to its further deterioration. [We are grateful to Javier Torrens, of Pamplona, Spain, for his notes on and photographs of this font]