St. Gallen No. 1 / Kloster St. Gallen / Abbaye de Saint-Gall / Benediktinerabtei Sankt Gallen / Saint-Gallen

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view of baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of basin and baptismal dish - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche St. Gallen - Taufbecken."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by 1971Markus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_St._Gallen_(16).jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche St. Gallen"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 April 2017 by JoachimKohlerBremen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_St._Gallen_(April_2017).jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Source caption: "Aerial View of the Convent of St. Gall" -- the abbey in the foreground; the Reforned parish church of St. Laurenzen in the background

Scene Description: Source caption: "Aerial View of the Convent of St. Gall" -- the abbey in the foreground; the Reforned parish church of St. Laurenzen in the background

Image Source: digital photograph 14 February 2008 by Hansueli Krapf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_View_of_the_Monastry_of_Sankt_Gallen_14.02.2008_14-48-17.JPG] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest

Image Source: digital image of J. Rudolf Rahn: Geschichte der Bildenden Künste in der Schweiz. Von den Ältesten Zeiten bis zum Schlusse des Mittelalters. Zürich 1876 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_Saint_Gall#/media/File:Rahn_Kloster_Sanct_Gallen_nach_Lasius.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2023]

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - holy-water reservoir - 2

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche St. Gallen - Weihwasserbehälter"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by 1971Markus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_St._Gallen_(04).jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of church interior - holy-water reservoir - 2

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mittelschiff der Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2017 by Shesmax [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_St._Gallus_und_Otmar._Mittelschiff._2017-07-09_14-10-39.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of church interior - plan

Source caption: "The interior of the church is divided by columns and railings which not only direct the lay visitors to their authorised spaces but also block their view of the sacred east where the altar of Saint Mary and Saint Gall is placed. According to Horn and Born only one-sixth of the church is accessible to seculars while five-sixths of it is reserved for the sole use of the monks. Lay guests are only admitted in the side aisles of the church, the area around the baptismal font – fons – and the crypt – cripta; the only place in the church where monks and seculars mix to worship at the tomb of Saint Gall. The transept, the presbytery, the nave and the two apses (dedicated to Saint Peter to the west and Saint Paul to the east) being solely for the ascetics' use".

Scene Description: Source caption: "The interior of the church is divided by columns and railings which not only direct the lay visitors to their authorised spaces but also block their view of the sacred east where the altar of Saint Mary and Saint Gall is placed. According to Horn and Born only one-sixth of the church is accessible to seculars while five-sixths of it is reserved for the sole use of the monks. Lay guests are only admitted in the side aisles of the church, the area around the baptismal font – fons – and the crypt – cripta; the only place in the church where monks and seculars mix to worship at the tomb of Saint Gall. The transept, the presbytery, the nave and the two apses (dedicated to Saint Peter to the west and Saint Paul to the east) being solely for the ascetics' use".

Image Source: digital image of the early-9thC plan of Saint Gall. Basilica https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_of_Saint_Gall._Basilica.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2023]

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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche St. Gallen - Taufbecken."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2018 by 1971Markus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_St._Gallen_(15).jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of font and baptismal dish in context

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 November 2023)

view of stoup

Scene Description: the modern stoup

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of stoup - basin - interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cathédrale de Saint-Gall, Suisse."

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2006 by Rama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StGall-p1030836.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église abbatiale de Saint-Gall, en Suisse" -- showing the modern stoup

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2022 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20220810_Sankt_Gallen_099.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église abbatiale de Saint-Gall, en Suisse" -- showing the modern stoup

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 August 2022 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20220810_Sankt_Gallen_100.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05545GAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar / Kathedrale St. Gallen / Pfarrkirche der Dompfarrei und Bistumskirche [formerly Fürstabtei Sankt Gallen]

Church Patron Saints: St. Gall [aka Gallech, Gallus, Gilianus] & St. Otmar

Church Location: Klosterhof, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 71 224 05 50

Country Name: Switzerland

Location: St. Gallen

Directions to Site: Located S of the A1 [Rosenbergtunnel], about 50 km SE of Konstanz/Constance

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum St. Gallen

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church, font and stoup

Church Notes: 8thC abbey and first abbey church [ca. 719]; present church 1755-1767; abbey dissolved 1805 and the abbey church became parochial; made cathedral in 1847; interior renovation of 1962-1967

Font Notes: Click to view

Didron (1859) informs that a font is noted on the plans of the Abbey church, between the altar of St. John Evangelist and that of St. Peter, at the entrance of the west choir. Bond (1908: 29, 88n, 117) refers to the 9th-century plan of the monastery; the plan shows the position of the font in the middle of the nave. [NB: no up-to-date information on this font is available at present; the present font [cf. ImagesArea] is modern]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.4232, 9.3767

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 25′ 23.52″ N, 9° 22′ 36.12″ E

UTM: 32T 528412 5252263

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; p. 176