Guebwiller No. 1 / Gawiller
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font; the base is certainly modern but, is the basin older? [no information available at present]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2015 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_StLéger_14.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - crossing - detail
![one of four statues at the four angles of the crossing; they are usually described as "mendiant", a beggar, but some sources refer to them as representation of Jews with money bags [e.g.: the ones in a similar position at the church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul in Rosheim, Alsace]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/GUE0205838_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one of four statues at the four angles of the crossing; they are usually described as "mendiant", a beggar, but some sources refer to them as representation of Jews with money bags [e.g.: the ones in a similar position at the church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul in Rosheim, Alsace]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - crossing - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - crossing - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: over the crossing
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2015 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_St._Léger_2.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church exterior - west - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2010 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_StLéger05.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2010 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_StLéger_07.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_Saint-Léger_449.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_Saint-Léger_445.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west
Scene Description: with the present font at the far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2015 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guebwiller_StLéger_14.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: at one time used as well-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général... (1972)
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1972)
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: mixed with palmettes in the lower ornamented band around the basin side, a/p Inventaire général... (1972)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général... (1972)
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1972)
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine? - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général... (1972)
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1972)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04503GUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2002-08-13
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Museum: Musée du Florival, rue du quatre février 1, Guebwiller
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Léger [now in a museum]
Font Location in Church: In the museum's south gallery of the cloister
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Notes: original church 8thC; Romanesque church built ca. 1142-1182, com,pleted ca. 1200-1230 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00085440] as 12thC
Church Address: place Saint-Léger, 68500 Guebwiller, France
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 23 NNW of Mulhouse, SW of Colmar. The church is located in the old town centre, the 'ville haute', rue des Dominicains
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Additional Comments: recycled font (the original (?) font here was used as a well-head at Buhl, and eventually brought to the Florival museum in Guebwiller)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Inventaire général... (1972) [Palissy ref.: IM68000081]: "Fonts baptismaux [grès (rose)] d'époque romane, provenant peut être de l'abbaye de Murbach ; utilisés ultérieurement comme margelle de puits à Buhl [...] cylindre évidé complètement pour servir de puits ; consolidé avec du mortier de ciment [...] 11e siècle, 12e siècle (?)". Romanesque cylindrical unmounted font made of pink sandstone; it has vertical sides, plain except for two narrow bands of ornamentation (foliage at top, palmettes and grapevine leaves at bottom). There is obvious damage on several spots around the sides; this source (ibid.) gives the probable origin as the old abbey at Murbach, but it was used as well-head later at Buhl, and eventually brought to the Florival museum in Guebwiller; the font has been restored ["par consolidation au mortier"] (ibid.) The present font, located at the west end of the south aisle [cf. Images area] consists of a plain hemispherical basin raised on a round to square pedestal base; the base is certainly modern but the basin may be older. Metal cover on it; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 366174 5308041
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.91174, 7.2092
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 54′ 42.26″ N, 7° 12′ 33.12″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM68000081]
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, vol. 1, p. 79 and pl. 543 in v. 2, p. 210