Munster in Münster-Geschinen No. 1 / Muenster / Münster / Münster-Geschinen / Monasterium / Musterium
Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: large tall and narrow leaves all around; another row with shorter leaves below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: a few large leaves all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: three sets: one det of short leaves forming a ring around the lower end of the stem; a second with long leaves similar to the ones on the underbowl decorating the three arms of the triamgular lower base; a third, with leaves similar to those on the second set, on the round protrusions between the three arms
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the round baluster stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
Scene Description: the upper part of the pattern showing from under the large foliated pattern below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ludovic Péron, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2011 by Ludovic Péron [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Munster_-_Église_Sainte-Marie.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2006 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 13 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19180MUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Marienkirche / Eglise Sainte-Marie
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 3985 Münster-Geschinen, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located in the merged municipality of Münster-Geschinen, in Goms valley, 65-70 km S of Lucerne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: original church is 13thC; expanded in late-15thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of what appears as a dark limestone or soapstone; it consists of a roughy hemispherical basin decorated with sparse vegetation around the upper side, below which are two patterns all around; the top one is of gadroons or ribs, partially covered by the lower one of floral and foliage motifs; there is a third one at the bottom of the underbowl, made of what appear to be oak leaves; on a baluster-shaped pedestal base decoratec with large leaves and with roll mouldings at both ends; the lower base is triangular in that it is made of three arms decorated with a floral and foliage pattern similar to the one on the basin underbowl; between the three arms are three round bulges that have foliage motifs on them. The tall wooden rim-buffet cover is made of two square volumes; the lower one has niches occupied by saintly figures, painted and gilded torsade columns framing the sides of the panels; the upper volume is similar but ope, with a Baptism of Christ scene in it; figural finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.487069, 8.265386
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 29′ 13.45″ N, 8° 15′ 55.39″ E
UTM: 32T 443618 5148429
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]