Rossura / Rosüra
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view of basin
Scene Description: inside the north chapel, behind the east parapetunfortunately the image does not show the symbol on the side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by Adrian Michael [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossura_Kirche_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - south side - painting
Scene Description: 15thc?
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view of church interior - north side - chapel
![inside the chapel, behind the right [east] parapet, is the old baptismal basin](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150515023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: inside the chapel, behind the right [east] parapet, is the old baptismal basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by Adrian Michael [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossura_Kirche_Seitenkapelle.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by Adrian Michael [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossura_Kirche_innen1.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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symbol - key - two crossed keys in X arrangement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincenzo Vicari, 1969
Image Source: B&W photograph by Vincenzo Vicari, in Marcionetti (1969)
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symbol - cross - 2
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincenzo Vicari, 1969
Image Source: B&W photograph by Vincenzo Vicari, in Marcionetti (1969)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19866ROS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1247?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa dei SS. Lorenzo e Agata
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & St. Agatha
Church Notes: church said to have been founded in 1247
Church Address: 6760 Rossura, Switzerland
Site Location: Ticino / Tessin, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municpality of Faido
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Lugano
Historical Region: Val Leventina
Additional Comments: disused font?
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Marcionetti (1969) as an ancient font in Rossura that bears two crossed keys next to two crosses in its side. All that remains now is the old roughly hemispehrical basin, obviously disused, placed in a north chapel of the church at Rossura.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Marcionetti, Isidoro, Antiche vasche battesimali del Ticino, Lugano: Labor Arti Grafiche S. A., 1969, p. 37 and fig.12