Orschwihr No. 1 / Orschwir

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04501ORS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1669
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Nicolas d'Orschwihr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, SW area
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00054882]: "Un édifice dédié à saint Nicolas est attesté en 1335 ; église construite de 1547 à 1557, devint église paroissiale en 1550 ; il subsiste la tour datée 1576 et 1577 ; en 1778 démolition puis construction d'une nouvelle église sur des plans de de Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Chassain inachevée lors de la consécration en 1782 ; restaurations au 19e siècle"
Church Address: 2 Rue de l'Église, 68500 Orschwihr, France
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D5, in the canton de Guebwiller, 18-20 km SW of Colmar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Additional Comments: restored font [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 14thC church here)
Font Notes:
Described in the Inventaire général... (1972) as a 17th-century octagonal baptismal font (the date 1669 is inscribed on the upper border of the basin); the walls of the basin are curved to a narrowr lower end, each adorned with a large angel or putto head in very high relief, and, below it, e palm (?) leaf in low relief; there is a horizontal crack al around the basin, about half-way up. The pedestal base is octagonal with pronounced mouldings, and a narrower stem, also octagonal, on whose sides are carved leaves like the ones on the basin. Font listed in Palissy [ref.: IM68000516]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 1669 [...] Grès [...] octogonal [...] H = 100 ; hauteur totale sans le couvercle ; pied : h = 55 [...] Figures (angelot) ; acanthe [...] Oeuvre complétée ; oeuvre restaurée [...] Couvercle moderne [...] Nef, angle sud-ouest".

COORDINATES

UTM: 32T 368149 5310666
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.935739, 7.234611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 56′ 8.66″ N, 7° 14′ 4.6″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1972)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: upper part of the basin side
Inscription Text: "1669"
Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1972)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

REFERENCES

  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
  • Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Alsace, Haut-Rhin: canton Guebwiller (2 vols.), Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1972, vol. 1, p. 128 and pl. 948 in v. 2, p. 360