Orsieres / Orsières / Pons Ursarii
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Zumbuehl, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Roland Zumbuehl [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orsieres-Eglise.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 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 3 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 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19187ORS
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Place de l'Église, 1937 Orsières, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located in the valleys of Val Ferret and Vallée de Champex
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1691
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: original church here 1177-1296; re-built 1497; re-built 1896; restored, etc., 20thC [source: Parish web site [cf. FontNotes]]
The Parish web site [www.paroisse-orsieres.ch] [accessed 25 April 2014] notes: "Les fonts baptismaux (1691). La cuve est en pierre, de plan octogonal. Son couvercle est en noyer sculpté. Le corps principal est décoré de fruits, de têtes d'anges et de feuillages. Au-dessus, un édicule composé de huit arcades abrite les statuettes de Saint Jean-Baptiste et du Christ. La couronne surmontée d'un globe et d'une croix rappelle un toit à coupole." Baptismal font of grey limestone (?), consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, plain but for the falt moulding at the upper rim, raised on an octagonal baluster-shaped pedestal base decorated with a single moulding. Wooden [walnut wood] rim-buffet font cover of two volumes; the lower volume has scrollwork panels with scroll buttresses topped with human heads at the angles; moulded cornices with cherub heads above; the second volume is openwork with a Baptism of Christ scene inside, the supporting outer columns in the shape of cherubs with folded wings; moulded upper cornice with an octagonal crown-like top with orb-and-cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
46.031042,
7.14612
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
46° 1' 51.55" N,
7° 8' 45.82" E
UTM: 32T 356837 5099415
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (?)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
walnut
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
