Martigny-Ville No. 2 / Martinach / Martiniacum
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19179MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de la Visitation [formerly Notre-Dame des Champs]
Church Location: Rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville 5, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 27 722 22 82
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located near Dorénaz and Vernayaz, 35 km SE of Montreux
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Historical Region: Bas-Valais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1684
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: the present church is under the advocation of Notre-Dame de la Visitation, but was formerly dedicated to Notre-Dame des Champs [a name now assigned to the church annex] -- the original church here was Early Christian of the 4thC; a Romanesque church was consecrated in 1177; the dedication changed in 1420 to Notre-Dame-des-Chamos, but was later reversed to La Visitation
Font Notes:
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The Parish web site [www.paroissemartigny.ch] [accessed 24 April 2014] informs that the present baptismal font is from 1684, a date inscribed on it. The font consists of an octagonal basin with a broad flat moulding at the top and a rounded underbowl, raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal bace and a moulded lower base, both also octagonal. The font is either made of a very dark, almost black stone, or has been painted that colour all over. The font cover is of the rim-buffet type common in the Valais churches; lower volume is octagonal, made of wood with panels carved with Church fathers, apostles or saints, the arrises with foliated motifs, the cornices moulded; upper volume is an octagonal canopy supported on eiht torsade columns, housing a baptism of Christ scene, the large finial including cherubs a demi-figure [God the Father? Christ?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 350568 5106975
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 129 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]