Kaysersberg No. 1
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - tracery
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_SteCroix.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Kaysersberg, Rue du Général-de-Gaulle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_rGénDeGaulle_a.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Canniot, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2007 by Thomas Canniot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blick_auf_Kaysersberg.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: of the main altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_SteCroix30.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_SteCroix85.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_SteCroix09.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03575KAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-08-12
Font Date: 1448
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de l'Invention-de-la-Sainte-Croix
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistry
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy-Cross
Church Notes: 13thC church; listed in Mérimée [référence PA00085477] -- ful set of ext. and int. photos of this church and its contents in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Église_Ste_Croix_(Kaysersberg)?uselang=fr [accessed 24 May 2015]
Church Address: rue du Général De Gaulle, 68240 Kaysersberg, France -- Tél.: 03 89 78 22 78 (Tourisme)
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 10 kms NW of Colmar, on the N415
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Corblet (1881-1882) simply as a 15th century font. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP68W00978] with date 1448. The baptismal font consists of a hexagonal basin with tapering sides decorated with Gothic tracery below a thick moulding at the upper rim; tapering onto a short pedestal, also hexagonal. Pyramidal metal [copper?] cover with dove finial; modern. [cf. Index entry for Kayserberg No. 2 for an interesting holy-water stoup (?) listed for this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.138915, 7.263489
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 8′ 20.09″ N, 7° 15′ 48.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 144