Orschwir No. 2
INFORMATION
FontID: 04502ORS
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: France
Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Guebwiller, SW of Colmar
Font Location in Church: In the nave, SW angle
Century and Period: 17th century
Font Notes:
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Described in the Inventaire général... (1972) as a 17th-century holy-water stoup; the basin is octagonal, raised on a moulded octagonal stem and a square lower base. All its parts are without decoration.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm
Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1972)
REFERENCES
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