Volleges / Villezo / Vollèges
Image copyright © Natasha Hathaway, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 May 2012)
Results: 4 records
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maurice Perry, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2008 by Maurice Perry [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vollèges.jpg] [accessed 26 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 in context
Scene Description: by the steps leading to the west gallery
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: 19193VOL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Tours
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 1941 Vollèges, Valais, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Valais
Directions to Site: Located on Mont Chemin, near Bagnes and Martigny
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sion
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Natasha Hathaway for her photograph and measurements of this font
Church Notes: original church or chapel probably late-12thC, a dependencey of the abbey of St-Maurice; re-built in 15thC; present church is mostly 18thC, with major renovation in 1998-2010 [source: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F2680.php] [accessed 26 April 2014]]
Stone baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl decorated with broad ribbed pattern, raised on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base decorated with mouldings at both ends, and a square base decorated with scroll motifs on the sides. The wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type, the main volume octagonal with vertical carved panels and decorated arrises, a crown-like top made up of eight scroll ribs meeting at the finial, an orb-and-cross, the cross Latin and trefoiled. The font is located by the stairs leading to the west gallery. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church here -- the church of Levron, a hamlet of Vollèges, is modern (mid-20thC)].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
46° 5' 13.70" N,
7° 10' 8.43" E
UTM: 32T 359155 5105978
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 121 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Natasha Hathaway (e-mail to BSI -- 30 May 2012)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
