Zorraquin / Zorraquín

Described in López de Silanes Valgañón (2000) as a Romanesque baptismal font probably of the 12th century with a plain basin, similar to the ones at nearby Santurdejo and Fonzaleche. Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) notes two Romanesque objects in this church: a holy-water stoup and a font; the font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated simply with two incised grooves, raised on a short cylindrical stem, a round moulded lower base and a quadrangular plinth; it is dated by this source to the same date as the fabric of the church, the 12th century. [NB: there is no description of the stoup in this source]. The font is described in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008), which mentions also a holy-water stoup originally from the now disappeared Monasterio de San Sebastian de Ojacastro; it is a composite work, a decorated hemispherical basin raised on a slender colonnette formerly from a window, most likely. Noted in Rioja Románica [https://www.riojaromanica.com/categorias/pilas-bautismales#] [accessed 23 November 2020]: "En Zorraqín la pila bautismal se encuentra en los pies del templo. Sobre un pie con un plinto cuadrangular y un fuste cilíndrico tiene una copa semiesférica lisa. Asimismo la iglesia tiene una pila de agua bendita al parecer del siglo XII proveniente del desaparecido monasterio de San Sebastián de Ojacastro. Tiene forma de copa semiesférica y usa como pie una columna que quizá perteneció a una ventana."