Santa Cruz de Campezo No. 1 / Santikurutze Kanpezu

Noted and illustrated in the web site of the municipality of Campezo [www.campezo.org], which refers to two objects in this church as 'pila bautismal / bataiarria', i.e., baptismal font. There are two objects related to the holy-water rites inside the church: a)a large roughly hemispherical basin of dark stone raised on a pedestal base, inside the porch; it appears of the 16th century of much later; b)a baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin, shallower and of smaller dimensions, the sides of which are decorated with an arcade of round arch-heads with inscribed human heads that may be haloed; the arches are of beaded tape; the stem of the base has torsade pattern on it, flat ribs arranged in a diagonal fashion; the lower base is round to square, of three volumes, the middle one with rounded spurs or similar bulges; the font is very worn, and the heads on the basin disfigured. The font is too small to be an early one, though parts of the design and some of the motifs used are certainly a throw-back to Romanesque art; it might be ineteresting to relate it to the font at Aoiz, in Navarra, dated to the late 15th or early 16th century. The 'font' in the porch is probably a holy-water stoup.