Grandson / Grancione / Grandissone / Grantione

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view of church exterior in context - west view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 October 2007 by Archipat [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grandsontemple.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19473GRA
Church/Chapel: Eglise réformée Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Grandson
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 1422 Grandson, Vaud, Switzwerland -- Tel.: 021 331 58 41 [Pasteur Monnier Nicolas]
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Jura-Nord Vaudois, Vaud
Directions to Site: Located on the left bank of the south tip of Lake Neuchâtel
Ecclesiastic Region: [sous la responsabilité directe de l’Etat]
Font Location in Church: inside the church, to the left of the W entranceway
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church early 11thC; documented as given to the Benedictine Priory of Saint-Jean founded here before 1178; priory church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste received rights of parish in 1438 [source: [www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F2393.php] [accessed 20 October 2014]; restored 2006
Noted and illustrated in Patrimoine Vaudois [www.patrimoine.vd.ch/monuments-et-sites/eglises/eglise-de-grandson/le-mobilier/] [accessed 20 October 2014]: "Fonts baptismaux. Les traces de tenons et de charnière assurent qu’il s’agit de fonts baptismaux. Leur datation est plus délicate en raison du caractère". There is no cover present now, but the damage to opposite sides of the basin at the upper rim denote the previous existence of one; as many fonts in the Protestant north, it is used with a baptismal dish insert.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.808413, 6.64369
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 48′ 30.29″ N, 6° 38′ 37.28″ E
UTM: 32T 320733 5187473

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]