Val d'Illiez / Illiers / Illiex / Illiez / Vallis Illiaca / Yliacum / Ylies
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Scene Description: "1689", the likely date of the font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of basin
Scene Description: notice the partition of the inner well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2006 by Natasha Hathaway
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19192ILL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale
Church Location: 1873 Val-d’Illiez, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located on the Route des rives, in the Foret des Merennes,N of Champéry, just E of the border with France
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at E end of the nave
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photographs and measurements of this font
Church Notes: church documented by the 13thC, but present church dates from ca.1613, though totally re-built in 1686 (Claparède, 1890: 35)
Stone baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a square pedestal base adorned with two mouldings; the date "1689" is incised in one of the sides of the basin. The inner basin well is also octagonal, but has three original partitions, one large, occupying about half of the well, the other two smaller as they are the quarters of the total. There are traces of cover hardware in the upper rim, but there is no cover present. The font appears to date approximately from the major re-building of this church noted in Claparède [="fut rebâtie de fond en comble en 1686"]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
46° 12' 16.37" N,
6° 53' 33.94" E
UTM: 32T 337980 5118413
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (?)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 119 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
REFERENCES
Claparède, Arthur de, Champéry, le Val d'Illiez et Morgins: histoire et description, Genève: H. Georg, 1890
