Niederwald / Niderwaud

Orgues et vitraux [www.orgues-et-vitraux.ch/default.asp/2-0-2791-11-6-1/] [accessed 25 April 2014] notes: "Le baptistère date de 1671 et a été créé dans l'atelier Lagger de Reckingen, village voisin." Baptsmal font of limestone (?) consisting of a goblet-shaped octgonal basin with a rounded underbowl decorated with painted and gilded foliage motifs, which appaer to be laid onto the stone, not part of it; round baluster-shaped pedestal base and a square lower base decorated with incised stylised foliage motifs set at 90-degree angles. There is an inscription in Roman numerals incised in the upper rim of the basin [date?]. Baroque font cover; appears to be painted and gilded wood; lower part has large niche with Biblical scene in it; above, in a sort of canopy supported on four columns, a Baptism of Christ scene; the upper part includes a Holy Spirit dove in a radiant circle and an inscription with baptismal text in Latin, surrounded by gilded and painted scrolls and cherub heads. Cover similar to the one at nearby Oberwald.