Biasca / Abiasca / Aviasca / Bieschia / Bièschia
Image copyright © Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC, 2017
Permission received from the authors (e-mail of 6 August 2017)
Results: 13 records
view of church exterior - north view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Nordfassade.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Biasca, St. Peter and Paul church”, apse and clock tower, XII century".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2008 by Laurom [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biasca_Chiesa_Pietro_Paolo_02.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken in May 2008 by Laurom [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biasca_Chiesa_Pietro_Paolo_01.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: the tower is located at the east end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stef, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2013 by Stef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Santi_Pietro_e_Paolo.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - apse - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Christus.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Chor.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Kuppel.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_innen.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - north side - painting
Scene Description: painting on the north wall framing the sacristy doorway: the Last Supper
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Abendmahl.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior - plan
![Source caption: "Kirche San Pietro e Paolo (Biasca) Plan [...] Own work, nach einem Plan aus dem Kunstführer Schweiz, Band 2, S. 435".](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170807007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche San Pietro e Paolo (Biasca) Plan [...] Own work, nach einem Plan aus dem Kunstführer Schweiz, Band 2, S. 435".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Michael, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2011 by Adrian Michael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Biasca_Plan.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in the Spring of 2016 by Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC [http://estevesther.blogspot.ca/] [accessed 7 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the authors (e-mail of 6 August 2017)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken in the Spring of 2016 by Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC [http://estevesther.blogspot.ca/] [accessed 7 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the authors (e-mail of 6 August 2017)
view of font cover
Scene Description: the rim-buffet type often found in churches of this region
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in the Spring of 2016 by Esteve i Esther, Bàsicament ROMÀNIC [http://estevesther.blogspot.ca/] [accessed 7 August 2017]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the authors (e-mail of 6 August 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21378BIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale San Pietro e Paolo
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: 6710 Biesca, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Ticino / Tessin
Directions to Site: Located off road 408, NNW of Bellinzona, N of Como; the church is located to the E of the 90-degree south turn of road 2
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Lugano
Historical Region: Valle Riviera
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Esteve i Esther, od Bàsicament ROMÀNIC, for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: original church here may have been a 'chiesa battesimale' of the 9thC ca.830?]; present church re-built 12th-13thC, modified 16thC -- listed in the Inventario dei beni culturali... [KGS 5302] -- many frescoes (13th, 15th, 16th and 17thC)
Font Notes:
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Monolithic [hexagonal?] baptismal font of stone, a crude work; the tapering sides are uneven and toughly cut, devoid of decoration. Wooden cover of the rim-buffet type, with panelled sides framed by buttresses at the angles; domed top with architectural finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.3597, 8.97355
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 21′ 34.92″ N, 8° 58′ 24.78″ E
UTM: 32T 497965 5134014
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal [hexagonal?]
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal [hexagonal?]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type, with dome top and finial; appears modern