Spiez No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05552SPI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century

Church / Chapel Name: Schloss / Castle

Font Location in Church: It appears to be in the castle, but not in the castle church (?)

Church Notes: The original church dates back probably to the 8th century, but the Romanesque church dates to the 11th century and later.

Site Location: Bern, Switzerland, Europe

Directions to Site: On the south shore of Lake Thun, about 8 km SSE of Thun

Additional Comments: recycled font: it now appears to serve as a flower pot elsewhere in the castle

Font Notes: Click to view

A photograph of an object which the caption descrbes as "baptism font" appears in the WEB page of Spiez ( htp://jakobsweg.ch/JWE/ORTE_E/espiezkinh.htm ); it appears to be serving now in one of the corridors of the castle as a flower pot. The object has a square pedestal base of the "baluster-type", quite robust-looking, and a square basin (?) made in the graded-chamfer shape. It appears to be an object of the late 17th century. [NB: the Index entry for Spiez No. 1 reports a ca. 1500 baptismal font, formerly from the parish church, now in the Schlosskirche]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Exterior Shape: square