Rossura / Rosüra
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symbol - cross - 2
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincenzo Vicari, 1969
Image Source: B&W photograph by Vincenzo Vicari, in Marcionetti (1969)
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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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view of basin
Scene Description: inside the north chapel, behind the east parapetunfortunately the image does not show the symbol on the side
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_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
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_innen3.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by Adrian Michael [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rossura_Kirche3.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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_innen2.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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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
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_Seitenkapelle.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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view of church interior - south side - painting
Scene Description: 15thc?
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_Fresko1.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19866ROS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa dei SS. Lorenzo e Agata
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & St. Agatha
Church Location: 6760 Rossura, Svizzera
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Ticino / Tessin
Directions to Site: Located in the municpality of Faido
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Lugano
Historical Region: Val Leventina
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1247?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: church said to have been founded in 1247
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