Kappel am Albis No. 1
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Der romanische Taufstein (?) aus dem Vorgängerbau (?) ist im Seitenschiff aufgestellt." [cf. FontNotes]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24288ALB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Kappel am Albis Klosterkirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Notes: 1185 Cistercian monastery; present church ca. 1300; Reformed 1525; abbey church becomes parochial 1527; present tower replaced an earlier one in 1641; church renovated 1980s; the rest of the abbey is today a seminar centre, hotel, cafe/restaurant
Church Address: Klosterkirche Kappel, Kappelerhof 5, 8926 Kappel am Albis, Switzerland
Site Location: Affoltern, Zürich, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) cantonal road 14, 5 km N of the Zugersee, 15-20 km S of Zürich city centre
Additional Comments: disused font (a fragment believed to be the remains of the medieval font here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in zh-kirchenspots.ch [https://www.zh-kirchenspots.ch/content/e1665/e1666/e6326/e14206/] [accessed 8 September 2022] notes and illustrates two baptismal fonts in this former abbey church: one, dated from 1528 bearing the Cistercian emblem ["Taufstein von 1528, mit Zisterzienser-Wappen"] and a second one believed to be the original font of the Romanesque abbey church here; it is now displayed in the nave ["Der romanische Taufstein (?) aus dem Vorgängerbau (?) ist im Seitenschiff aufgestellt"]. [cf. BSI entry for Kappel im Albis No. 2 for the 1528 font in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 463658 5229724
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.22735, 8.52478
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, fragment
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round