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
Font ID: 19473GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église réformée Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Grandson
Font Location in Church: inside the church, to the left of the W entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
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
Church Address: Rue Haute 23, 1422 Grandson, Vaud, Switzwerland -- Tel.: 021 331 58 41 [Pasteur Monnier Nicolas]
Site Location: Jura-Nord Vaudois, Vaud, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 5, on SW shore of Lake Neuchâtel, just across from Yverdon-les-Bains, about 40 km N of Lausanne
Ecclesiastic Region: [sous la responsabilité directe de l’Etat]
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 320733 5187473
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.808413, 6.64369
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 48′ 30.29″ N, 6° 38′ 37.28″ E
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]