Aberin No. 1 / Aberían / Abérin

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
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Results: 13 records
design element - motifs - ball - 4
design element - motifs - moulding and piping
design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font - upper view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 08899ABE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located between the N-122 and the N-132, in the Valle de la Solana, near Muniain de la Solana, Merindad de Estella
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Estella
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a small chapel, under the west gallery, in the SW corner
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [altered], Gothic [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info] for his photographs of this church, and to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church, font and stoup
Church Notes: church possibly from the late 12thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- ) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with radial motif, raised on a conical base and a lower base or plinth consisting of a torus at the top and a square platform decorated with ball motif at the angles below. In the Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) with date of the 13th century. If the font is 13th-century, as claimed in the Enciclopedia [cf. supra], which is possible at a stretch, the interior of the basin was altered to have multiple divisions at a much later time. There are traces of plugged holes on the upper rim surface, an indication there probably were staples for an earlier font cover in it. The present font cover is round, flat and plain, with a know handle; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 37' 10.98" N,
2° 0' 24.16" W
UTM: 30T 582014 4718732
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 80 cm* [or is this the total height]
Notes on Measurements: * [Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]