Hermance No. 1
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Results: 8 records
animal - mammal - quadruped - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left on the second panel from the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in the Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives [http://g.lefranc.pagesperso-orange.fr/Hermance-US.html] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: seen here on the leftmost side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives [http://g.lefranc.pagesperso-orange.fr/Hermance-US.html] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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symbol - cross - Greek - treflée or fleuronnée
Scene Description: in the second from the right panel
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives [http://g.lefranc.pagesperso-orange.fr/Hermance-US.html] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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unidentified
Scene Description: in the rightmost panel here
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives [http://g.lefranc.pagesperso-orange.fr/Hermance-US.html] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Église Saint-Georges de Hermance."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chabe01, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2018 by Chabe01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_St_Georges_Hermance_7.jpg] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hermance, Église, Portail, vue d'ensemble; Vue d'ensemble du portail de l'église de Hermance, dans le canton de Genève"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1902 B&W photograph by Max von Berchem, in the Prints and Drawings Department, Federal Archives of historic monuments [Swiss National Library, EAD-8761] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CH-NB_-_Hermance,_Église,_Portail,_vue_d'ensemble_-_Collection_Max_van_Berchem_-_EAD-8761.tif] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Office du patrimoine et des sites, 2019
Image Source: digital image in Recensement architectural du canton de Genève (RAC-2018) [https://www.genevepatrimoine.ch/documents/fiches/he_eglise107.pdf] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: with the Chapel of the Visitation behind
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in the Association de l'Orgue virtuel des Eaux-vives [http://g.lefranc.pagesperso-orange.fr/Hermance-US.html] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23560HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Georges d’Hermanc
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Cimetière d'Hermance, rue du Bourg-Dessus 6, 1248 Hermance, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Geneva / Genève
Directions to Site: Located off the D25, just S of the Lake Leman border with France, about 10 km NNE of Geneva
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, nave, N side, by the chapel of the Visitation
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this site to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: wooden chapel built on papal bull 8 January 1247; re-built 13thC and much modified since; restored 1970s; renovated 2008
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the 15th century reported by Waldemar Deonna's "Les collections lapidaires au Musée d'art et d'histoire (suite)", in Genava, 5, 1927, pp. 107-234, pp. 152, 155, 158 et 15). Noted and illustrated after Deonna in "Hermance - Secteur 2 fiche RAC-HER-1056' by the Recensement architectural du canton de Genève (RAC-2018) [https://www.genevepatrimoine.ch/documents/fiches/he_eglise107.pdf] [accessed 22 November 2021]: "fonts baptismaux du XVe siècle (Waldemar 1927)". The font consists of a polygonal [decagonal] basin decorated with motifs and symbols (charged shields, cross, quadruped, etc.) on the sides, a plain underbowl chamfer; raised on a round splaying plain pedestal base. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.30137, 6.24451
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 18′ 4.93″ N, 6° 14′ 40.24″ E
UTM: 32T 287801 5131223
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]