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Image Source: digital photograph taken at the Museum of Civilization on 27 September 2008 by BSI
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken at the Museum of Civilization on 27 September 2008 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13879OTT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2008-09-27
Font Date: ca. 1865?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Museum: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, CMCC, D-1203 / SMCC, D-1203
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church -- original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: 100 Laurier St, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8, Canada -- Tel.: (819) 776-7000
Site Location: Québec, Canada, North America
Directions to Site: Located just S of the Alexandra Bridge, on the W bank of the Ottawa river (Hull/Quebec side)
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font from ca. 1865 consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with trefoiled arch-heads on the sides; the lower rim of the basin is scalloped, the trumpets decorating the underbowl; on a short floriated capital and a slender shaft imitating green marble; splayed octagonal lower base. Octagonal wooden cover with Latin cross finial. The object is identified in the Museum label as being made of "Wood and paint".
COORDINATES
UTM: 18T 444548 5030933
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.429722, -75.708889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 25′ 47″ N, 75° 42′ 32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1865?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]