Jussy / Jussy-Eglise

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Results: 9 records

design element - motifs - ball or knob - 4

at the corners; damaged?
Scene Description: at the corners; damaged?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-choeur-2017.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding

a broad one all around
Scene Description: a broad one all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-choeur-2017.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - diagonal ribs

very broad concave rib pattern all around
Scene Description: very broad concave rib pattern all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-choeur-2017.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
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view of church exterior - west view

Source caption: "Temple de Jussy."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Temple de Jussy."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-2017-2.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Jussy, temple: vue intérieure en direction du choeur, après restauration [...] Le temple de Jussy a été restauré en 1922-1923 par l'architecte Albert Bourrit (bureau Peyrot et Bourrit)" [source: Bibliothèque de Genève / https://notrehistoire.ch/entries/Xb1BoqLjWkz] -- notice the pulpit installed at the east end, as in many churches in Protestant lands altered by the Reformation
Scene Description: Source caption: "Jussy, temple: vue intérieure en direction du choeur, après restauration [...] Le temple de Jussy a été restauré en 1922-1923 par l'architecte Albert Bourrit (bureau Peyrot et Bourrit)" [source: Bibliothèque de Genève / https://notrehistoire.ch/entries/Xb1BoqLjWkz] -- notice the pulpit installed at the east end, as in many churches in Protestant lands altered by the Reformation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FONSART / Bibliothèque de Genève, 2021
Image Source: digital image of a 1923 B&W photograph in the Bibliothèque de Genève ["Reproduction numérique d'un négatif argentique noir-blanc original sur support souple" [https://notrehistoire.ch/entries/Xb1BoqLjWkz] [accessed 23 November 2021]
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view of church interior - looking west

showing the 15thC font here on the left [south] side, fully detached
Scene Description: showing the 15thC font here on the left [south] side, fully detached
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paroisse de Jussy-Gy-Meinier-Presinge-Puplinge, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in the Paroisse de Jussy-Gy-Meinier-Presinge-Puplinge [https://jussy.epg.ch/] [accessed 23 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction - Fair Dealing

view of font

the 15thC font after it was detached from beneath the pulpit
Scene Description: the 15thC font after it was detached from beneath the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-choeur-2017.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font in context

the 15thC font after it was detached from beneath the pulpit
Scene Description: the 15thC font after it was detached from beneath the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MHM55, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 3 December 2017 by MHM55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Jussy-choeur-2017.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font in context

The 15thC stone font is used as a support for the pulpit; it would be later detached and returned to its earlier function.
Scene Description: The 15thC stone font is used as a support for the pulpit; it would be later detached and returned to its earlier function.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FONSART / Bibliothèque de Genève, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1923 B&W photograph in the Bibliothèque de Genève ["Reproduction numérique d'un négatif argentique noir-blanc original sur support souple" [https://notrehistoire.ch/entries/Xb1BoqLjWkz] [accessed 23 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 23563JUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Paroisse Protestante [EPG] / Le Temple [ancienne Eglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine]
Church Patron Saints: [originally(?) St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: chemin de la Laiterie 4 / route de Jussy 315, 1254 Jussy, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 22 759 14 44
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Geneva / Genève
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km NE of Geneva, on the Swiss-French border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Genève
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, 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: present church was in earlier times the 'Ancienne Eglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine', originally 9th-10thC and said to have been built on a Merovingian cemetery or necropolis
Font Notes:
Waldemar Deonna's LES ARTS A GENÈVE DES ORIGINES A LA FIN DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE (1922: 151) shows an illustration of the interior [cf. ImagesArea] in which the pulpit is supported on a stone base: "temple de Jussy, fonts baptismaux du XVe siècle, supportant la chaire". A digital image of a 1923 B&W photograph in the Bibliothèque de Genève ["Reproduction numérique d'un négatif argentique noir-blanc original sur support souple" [https://notrehistoire.ch/entries/Xb1BoqLjWkz] [accessed 23 November 2021] shows that the font was still retained beneath the pulpit in the 1922-1923 renovation of the church interior; present [2017] photographs [cf. ImagesArea] show the old font detached in the re-arranged interior of the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.23542, 6.26605
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 14′ 7.51″ N, 6° 15′ 57.78″ E
UTM: 32T 289207 5123838

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal