Andlau No. 2 / Andelach / Andelaha / Andelelaha / Andeloa / Andeloha / Andeloïa / Andelow / Andlau-au-Val

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design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: is it on the hidden side(s)?
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andlau_SteRicharde_09.JPG] [accessed 24 May 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of church interior - crypt - looking east
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Eglise romane Saints-Pierre et Paul dite Sainte-Richarde, Mobilier (baptistère, chandelier pascal, châsse de Sainte-Richarde)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andlau_SteRicharde_09.JPG] [accessed 24 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 17088AND
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Abbaye Sainte-Richarde [originally a Benedictine abbey, Saint-Sauveur]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: 67140 Andlau, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement de Sélestat, canton de Barr
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Church Notes: abbey founded ca. 880 by Richardis, later Saint Richardis, empress of Charles the Fat; re-built early-11thC; damaged by fire; re-constructed 11th-12thC -- listed in Mérimée [référence PA00084587]
Font Notes:
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Later font recorded in PALISSY [Référence : IM67005720]; baptismal font of the 16th or 17th century made of pink sandstone; dodecagonal basin raised on a circular pedestal base decorated with foliage on the sides; thick roll moulding on the lower base; tiny quadrangular plinth with rounded angles; the basin is decorated with palmette motif and it is in a poor state of repair [NB: the font may have been re-tooled lately, as the basin sides appear now plain and smoothly finished]. [cf. Index entry for Andlau No. 1 for a disappeared font from the original church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.387778, 7.415
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 23′ 16″ N, 7° 24′ 54″ E
UTM: 32U 382657 5360615
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (pink)
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [PALISSY [Référence : IM67005720]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: dodecagonal and flat; modern
REFERENCES
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2010-11-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.