Pradejon No. 1 / Pradejón

Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) and in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a 12th-century Romanesque font originally from the Iglesia de San Miguel in Ollora; this font had been moved in 1968 from the abandoned church and village to the new church of Santos Martires, in Calahorra, where ir remained -in the company of the font from Yecora- until 1994, at which time it was moved to the Iglesia de Santa María in Pradejón. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a simple rope moulding all around, just a few inches from the upper rim; it has a similar, but thinner rope moulding on the underbowl, where it meets the short square base, modern, decorated with incised patterns. [cf. Index entry for Pradejon No. 2 for the original (?) font of this church]