Grimisuat / Grimisoch / Grimslen
Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 June 2012
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 June 2012
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Albins, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2013 by Albins [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise-saint-Pancrace.jpg] [accessed 21 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19174GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pancrace
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Notes: church originally late-12thC; mural paintings of the 17th and 20thC
Church Address: 1971 Grimisuat, Valais, Switzerland
Site Location: Valais, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the Route d'Italie, S of Arbaz, NE of Sion, in the District of Sion
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern; it consists of a square basin with a rounded underbowl decorated with ribs or gadroons, raised on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base; the modern font is 105 cm tall. Rim-buffet wooden cover, square with carved panels, scroll-ribs atop and orb-and-cross finial. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original late-12th century church here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photograph and measurements of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 375562 5124187
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.259853, 7.385357
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 15′ 35.47″ N, 7° 23′ 7.28″ E