Olivone in Blenio / Alivoni / Orive / Luorscha / Rivöi
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - north side - painting
Scene Description: some frescoes remain, like this partial one, on the north wall of the nave, over the sacristy doorway
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view of church interior - nave - south side - painting
Scene Description: some frescoes remain, like this partial one, on the south wall of the nave, towards the east end of the nave
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view of font
Scene Description: the colourful modern font in this church; the metal object partially visible on the right is a probably holy-water reservoir
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in this church and its rim-buffet wooden cover
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view of stoup
Scene Description: the modern stoup located by the west entranceway of this church
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21379OLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale di San Martino
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 6718 Olivone, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Ticino / Tessin
Directions to Site: Located off road 416, at the foot of Mt. Sosto, in the present municipality of Blenio since 2006, but formerly a separate municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Lugano
Century and Period: 8th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original church probably 8th-9thC; present church here documented since 1136; bell tower 12thC; modified 17thC -- listed in the Inventario dei beni culturali... [KGS 5650]
Font Notes:
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The present font is made of multi-coloured veined marble; it consists of a shallow moulded polygonal basin and a round pedestal base splaying towards the bottom. It has a wooden cover of the rim-buffet type common in the churches of this area, dome top and cross finial; the font is modern. There is a modern stoup by the west entranceway; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with mouldings and gadroons, raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal base; it is a late work, 17th- or 18th-century. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.52967, 8.94132
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 31′ 46.81″ N, 8° 56′ 28.75″ E
UTM: 32T 495500 5152905