Unterbach / Underbechque / Unnerbäch / Unterbäch
Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
Results: 12 records
coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: a number of them on the octagonal stem
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: on the square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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inscription
Scene Description: over two sides of the basin, to the left and right of the coat of arms: 15/73
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wici, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Wici [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Unterbäch.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the church in the context of the village centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wici, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Wici [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Dorfmitte.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2014]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: 1697
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wici, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Wici [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochaltar_Unterbäch.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2014]
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view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: the tabernacle and early-Gothic frescoes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wici, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Wici [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chorwand.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wici, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Wici [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Innen.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2014]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: as well as a metal holy-water container in the foreground, and a stone stoup or such object behind
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 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: digital photograph taken 10 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19191UNT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche Heilige Dreifaltigkeit / Eglise paroissiale de la Sainte-Trinité
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: 3944 Unterbäch, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E62, S of Raron/Rarogne, NNE of Bawald, in the Westlich Raron
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Historical Region: Haute Valais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: 1573
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: church originally consecrated in 1558; enlarged 1675; re-built in the 18thC; restored in 1937 [source: Orgues & vitraux [www.orgues-et-vitraux.ch] [accessed 26 April 2014]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone, consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering sides, raised on an octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal-to-square lower base, both moulded; the basin itself has mouldings at top and bottom, and, on the sides, the date 1573 split between two sides left and right of the front panel which has a charged shield [arms unidentified]. Baroque rim-buffet font cover consisting of a square tabernacle-like lower part with torsade columns on the angles holding up a light scroll canopy; in its centre a scene of the Baptism of Christ; all very ornate, gilded and painted wood (?).
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 406245 5124396
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on two sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "15 / 73"
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]