Sauze di Cesana / Lo Grand Sause / Sàuze 'd Cesan-a / Sauze de Césane

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symbol - shell

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph in the Comune di Sauze di Cesana [www.comune.sauzedicesana.to.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/cosa-vedere] [accessed 17 November 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph in the Comune di Sauze di Cesana [www.comune.sauzedicesana.to.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/galleria-foto] [accessed 17 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 08122RES

Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale di S. Restituto

Church Patron Saints: St. Restitut (1stC, bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux?) / St. Restitutus (4thC, bisdop of London?)

Church Location: Via del Colle, 12, 10054 Sauze di Cesana, TO, Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Torino, Piemonte

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the SP215, 4-5 km SW of Sestriere, in the Valle di Susa, 70 km WSW of Turin, and in its Città metropolitana, by the border with France -- the church is about 1 km away from the village gentre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Notes: original church 12thC(?); much modified through the centuries; restored 1996

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Cylindrical baptismal font with sea-shell ornamentation; wooden conical cover [source: www.comune.sauzedicesana.to.it/sauze/f.battseimale.html] [NB: the page no longer accessible in November 2019 -- the new site [www.comune.sauzedicesana.to.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/cosa-vedere] [accessed 17 November 2019] appears no to have a reference to the font in it, but describes the campanile of the church as "appartenente al modello romanico delfinale comune agli edifici religiosi dell'alta Valle"]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32T 331666 4977759

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FonNotes]