Kappel am Albis No. 1

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view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der romanische Taufstein (?) aus dem Vorgängerbau (?) ist im Seitenschiff aufgestellt." [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 24288ALB
Church/Chapel: Kappel am Albis Klosterkirche
Church Location: Klosterkirche Kappel, Kappelerhof 5, 8926 Kappel am Albis, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Affoltern, Zürich
Directions to Site: Located off (N) cantonal road 14, 5 km N of the Zugersee, 15-20 km S of Zürich city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
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
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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.22735, 8.52478
UTM: 32T 463658 5229724

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical [fragment]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round