Aguinaga de Lizoain / Aguinaga de Lizoáin / Aguinage de Lizoáin-Arriasgoiti

INFORMATION

FontID: 08863AGU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Antonio
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Location: 31482 Aguinage de Lizoáin-Arriasgoiti, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: The village of Aguinaga, in the valley and municipality of Lizoáin-Arriasgoiti / Lizoainibar-Arriasgoiti [formerly Lizoain], to the E of Pamplona, is now abandoned, but the chapel was recently [ca. 1990] restored.
Historical Region: Comarca de Aoiz / Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the restored rural chapel, in the N side
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church Notes: The CMdeN (ibid.) points out that the presence of a font in this rural chapel indicates that it served as a parish church in the past.
Font Notes:
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. IV**: 90): medieval baptismal font with a flat (?) basin [="de taza plana"].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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