Viana nr. Logroño No. 2 / Tidon / Tidón

INFORMATION

FontID: 24384VIA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Martín de Tidón

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Despoblado/paraje de San Martín de Tidón, 31230 Viana, Navarra, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: The site of the ermita is located off the provincial road NA-7230, about 1-2 km from Viana, 80 km SW of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andres Ortega, of www.romanicoennavarra.info, for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: rural church 12th and 13thC(?) may have been built on an earlier Roman temple; was parish church of the disappeared hamlet of Tidón; re-built 2010

Font Notes: Click to view

The ermita is noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/navarra_VIANA.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2022] but its font is not mentioned in it. An update from Andres Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info] [20 October 2022] informs there is no font present in this church now. Of a second ermita, San Andrés de Longar, also near Viana, only some ruins have survived; no font known in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.521528, -2.385139

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 31′ 17.5″ N, 2° 23′ 6.5″ W

UTM: 30T 550504 4707867