Raron / Rarogne / Rarogni / Rarun
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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design element - motifs - tracery
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design element - patterns - reticular
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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design element - patterns - reticular
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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inscription
Scene Description: seen here on the right, containing a scroll with what could be the date of the font, 1515
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Berger, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2006 by Peter Berger [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurgkircheRaron.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
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: 19188RAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Burgkirche St.Roman / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Romain
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: Burghügel, 3942 Raron / Rarogne, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: valais`
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Date: 1515?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photograph and measurements of this font
Church Notes: church built in early-16thC on the site of an earlier 12thC church here (and there may have been a Carolingian church before that); destroyed in 1494; Gothic church built in early-16thC -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is buried in the cemetery of this church [NB: the rock church by the castle is modern, of 1974]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl that merges seamlessly with round-to-square base; the basin sides have panels, one of which appears to have the date 1515 incised on a scroll; the rest of the font is covered in a reticular pattern of thick lines. The wooden cover is a rim-mounted low dome, and appears to work as a rim-buffet type, with the panel of the cover opening for access to the water; the wood looks like walnut, and it is carved with foliage motifs on the panels, the arrises with tracery or crenellation; the finial is a Baptism of Christ scene.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.3107, 7.80322
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 18′ 38.52″ N, 7° 48′ 11.59″ E
UTM: 32T 407851 5129265
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: in one of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: "1515"
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, walnut?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]