Sion No. 1 / Sedunum / Sitten
Results: 10 records
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the stem
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: on the upper side of the triangular lower base
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: on the stem
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 - patterns - ribbed
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 - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dr. Volkmar Rudolf/Tilman, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2004 by Dr. Volkmar Rudolf/Tilman [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sion-003.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license
view of church exterior in context - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph tane 23 July 2011 by Martin Doelberg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altstadt_von_Sion_-_Old_town_of_Sion.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication licence
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francois Polito, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2003 by Francois Polito [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedrale_notre_dame_de_sion.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 in context
view of font cover - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 19184SIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kathedrale Unserer Lieben Frau Sitten / Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Sion [aka Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Glarier]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Rue de la Cathédrale 13, 1950 Sion, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 27 322 80 66
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: original church of the Carolingian period, 9th-10thC; fire; 11thC Romanesque cathedral; fire; 15thC Gothic cathedral; major renovation and restorations in 20thC
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font is made of stone and consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl decorated with broad ribbed pattern, raised on a round baluster-type pedestal base decorated with foliage, and a triangular [three arms] lower base decorated with foliage on its upper surface. Tall wooden rim-buffet type octagonal font cover of four volumes of decreasing height and width; the lower volume has carved panels with scrollwork, with round columns at the angles; the second volume is somewhat similar but the angle columns are polygonals and have flat human figures on the sides; the third volume varies again somewhat by having scrolled buttressed angles; the top volume has short turned columsn supporting a low dome with a Latin cross finial. There are Latin inscriptions painted around the upper part of (at least) the two lower volumes. Dubuis and Lugon (1989) inform that the rim-buffet cover was comissioned by Jean Lergien, priest, in 1621.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.234067, 7.359274
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 14′ 2.64″ N, 7° 21′ 33.38″ E
UTM: 32T 373478 5121350
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1621?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Dubuis, François-Olivie
r, "La cathédrale Notre -Dame de Sion: le contexte historique des vestiges découverts en 1985 et 1988", 1989