Fessenheim-le-Bas
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date - 1671
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_StMartin_27.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: one on each panel of the basin underbowl
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inscription
Scene Description: Palissy [ref.: IM67009486]: "Inscription relative aux édiles : Bourgmeister, Pfarrer, Schultheis".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_StMartin_27.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: with the tower at the east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_StMartin_03.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
![the Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite is all that remains of the hamlet of Himmolsheim, disappeared in the 16thC; was it a baptismal chapel? -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA67005533]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180223007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite is all that remains of the hamlet of Himmolsheim, disappeared in the 16thC; was it a baptismal chapel? -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA67005533]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_SteMarguerite01.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the top of the font is visible on the right [south] side, at the far [east] end of the nave](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180223004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the right [south] side, at the far [east] end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_StMartin_39.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2012 by Ralp Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FessenheimBas_StMartin_27.JPG] [accessed 23 February 2018]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2012
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21625FES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 67117 Fessenheim-le-Bas, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D228-D720 crossroads, 10 km WNW of Strasbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of the nave, S side
Date: 1671
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Renaissance
Church Notes: church originally ca.1200 listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA67005527]: "De l'église primitive construite vers 1200, il ne reste que les trois premiers niveaux du clocher ainsi qu'une partie des murs latéraux de la première travée de la nef, servant actuellement de choeur. Tout le reste du bâtiment a été construit au début du 18e siècle."
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font dated 1671 listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67009486]: "Fonts baptismaux [grès] sur pied de section carrée puis octogonale. Cuve de section octogonale, d'élévation oblique, avec décor en relief. Couvercle en bois avec groupe sculpté [...] Décor : Baptême du Christ, motifs végétaux [...] Inscription relative aux édiles : Bourgmeister, Pfarrer, Schultheis [...] 1671 [...] Restauré." [NB: we have no information on whether the late-12th century Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite, listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00084711] and located also in Fessenheim-le-Bas, had baptismal rights and a font or not].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.633128, 7.540022
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 37′ 59.26″ N, 7° 32′ 24.08″ E
UTM: 32U 392433 5387702
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]