Schaeffersheim / Schäffersheim
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date - 1678
Scene Description: the date split onto the two sides of the arch
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design element - architectural - arch or window - round - 6
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design element - motifs - cartouche
Scene Description: oavl-shaped cartouches in low-relief
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: very large leaves; the ones at the corners are scrolled
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design element - motifs - moulding - 2
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2013 by Rauenstein [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schaeffersheim,_Église_Saint-Léger.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font and its cover are visible at the far [east] end, behind the tight [south] bank of benches, by the south auxiliary altar
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: by the south auxiliary altar
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21637SCH
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léger
Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Location: Schaeffersheim, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D426, W of the D1083, 15-20 km SSW of Strasbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side, by the S auxiliary altar
Date: 1678
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Renaissance
Church Notes: mid-18thC church; listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00023421]: "Eglise construite en 1754 par Balthasar Doegler ; agrandissement en 1867".
Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67000603] as a baptismal font, probably of limestone, dated by an inscription to 1678: "fonts baptismaux [calcaire (?)] plan (hexagonal) [...] ornementation (feuille) symbole (colombe : Saint-Esprit) [...] Fût hexagonal sur base carrée. Couvercle en cuivre [...] 1678 [...] mauvais état". The date is carved on one of the sides of the basin the forst two digits on the left of the arch, the last two digits on the right of the arch. The Holy-Ghost symbol mentioned in the Palissy entry above is actually on the finial of the modern font cover, inscribed in a circle.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.429622,
7.624064
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 25′ 46.64″ N,
7° 37′ 26.63″ E
UTM: 32U 398218 5364967
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 99.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 39.5 cm* ["largeur d'une face"]
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM67000603]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the south side of the basin; the numeber split: "16" located to the left of the arch, "78" to the right of the arch
Inscription Text: "1678"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
metal,
copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexgonal pyramid with plain sides and a Holy Ghost symbol in a circle as finial; modern