Saanen / Gessenay / Gissinay / Sanon
Results: 15 records
Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - holding staff - wearing pilgrim garb
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo Ebert, Gstadd, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard by Photo Ebert, Gstaad, in OldThing.de [https://img.oldthing.net/8867/23855927/0/n/Saanen-Kirche-Taufbecken-Kat-Saanen.jpg
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4 - in Ogee niches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ricardo, 2019
Image Source: digital image "Maximumkarte Taufstein Saanen 1979" in Ricardo [https://www.ricardo.ch/fr/a/maximumkarte-taufstein-saanen-1979-1074888912/] [accessed 21 April 2020]
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Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Apostle or saint - St. Mauritius
Scene Description: [cf. FontNtes]
Christ
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: seen here in the left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo Ebert, Gstadd, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard by Photo Ebert, Gstaad, in OldThing.de [https://img.oldthing.net/8867/23855927/0/n/Saanen-Kirche-Taufbecken-Kat-Saanen.jpg
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design element - patterns - reticular or tracery
Scene Description: on the basin and underbowl sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ricardo, 2019
Image Source: digital image "Maximumkarte Taufstein Saanen 1979" in Ricardo [https://www.ricardo.ch/fr/a/maximumkarte-taufstein-saanen-1979-1074888912/] [accessed 21 April 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Gutierrez Andres, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2017 by Juan Gutierrez Andres [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Saanen.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick auf Saanen. Dahinter sieht man den Berg Le Rubli."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Zumbuehl, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2012 by Roland Zumbuehl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saanen-BE.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2020]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Zumbuehl, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2012 by Roland Zumbuehl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saanen-Mauritius.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2020]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saanen / Saanen Church - 15th century fresco in the inner wall of the church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sumit Surai, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2018 by Sumit Surai [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saanen_Church_Fresco.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ricardo, 2019
Image Source: digital image "Maximumkarte Taufstein Saanen 1979" in Ricardo [https://www.ricardo.ch/fr/a/maximumkarte-taufstein-saanen-1979-1074888912/] [accessed 21 April 2020]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo Ebert, Gstadd, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard by Photo Ebert, Gstaad, in OldThing.de [https://img.oldthing.net/8867/23855927/0/n/Saanen-Kirche-Taufbecken-Kat-Saanen.jpg
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ITINARI, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph in ITINARI [https://www.itinari.com/location/saanen-church] [accessed 21 April 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05556SAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Skt. Mauritius Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Location: Dorfstrasse, Saanen, 3792 Gstaad, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Obersimmental-Saanen, Bern
Directions to Site: Located off road 11, in the Saanenland/Sonnenland, 3 km NW of Gstaad, 25-30 km ENE of Montreux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Lauenen, in the same canton
Church Notes: original church 1228; expanded mid-15thC
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font at the church of St. Mauritius in Saanen reached wider popular awareness when it made its appearance on the three-franc stamp issue of September 6, 1979 [cf. WEB site http://www.stamps.ch/CH/CH_EN/e_1979.html] [accessed 2 October 2009]. It is an octagonal font of sandstone with a busy tracery/reticular pattern covering both basin and base, but there are the symbols of the Evangelists around the basin, busts of John the Baptist, James the Greater, Madonna and Child, Christ and St. Mauritius. [NB: it appears very similar to the font now at the Schlosskirche at Spiez [cf. Index entry for Spiez No. 1]] A 'communiqué de presse' from the Chef-lieu du Saanenland dated February 2003 mentions "les fonts baptismaux en grès du XVe siècle" [source: www.gstaad.ch] [accessed 2 October 2009]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.4903, 7.25844
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 29′ 25.08″ N, 7° 15′ 30.38″ E
UTM: 32T 366344 5149999
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Notes: flat wooden lid; serves as the base for the flower-pot on it