Gsteig bei Gstaad / Chastelet / Châtelet / Gesteige / Stega / Steig

Image copyright © Verena Stähli-Lüthi, 1983

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design element - patterns - tracery - trefoiled

Scene Description: on the basin sides and underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Verena Stähli-Lüthi, 1983

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Verena Stähli-Lüthi's Kirche Gsteig: Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Gsteig-Interlaken (1983) [Kirche Gsteig - Verena Stähli-Lüthi.pdf] [accessed 10 April 2023]:

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Théodule de Gsteig (BE)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cheran, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2006 by Cheran [https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrn/103653851/] [accessed 10 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Verena Stähli-Lüthi, 1983

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Verena Stähli-Lüthi's Kirche Gsteig: Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Gsteig-Interlaken (1983) [Kirche Gsteig - Verena Stähli-Lüthi.pdf] [accessed 10 April 2023]:

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24669GST
Church/Chapel: Reformierte Pfarrkirche / Eglise Saint-Théodule de Gsteig
Church Patron Saints: St. Theodulph [aka Theodul, Théodule, Théodulphe, Thiou, Thious]
Church Location: Pillonstrasse 4, 3785 Gsteig, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Bern
Directions to Site: Located 12-13 km S of Saanen, about 50 km ESE of Lausanne
Historical Region: Bernese Oberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: church here documented 1196; 1228 church originally dedicated to St Michael
Baptismal font described and illustrated in Verena Stähli-Lüthi's Kirche Gsteig: Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Gsteig-Interlaken (1983) [Kirche Gsteig - Verena Stähli-Lüthi.pdf] [accessed 10 April 2023]: baptismal font made of sandstone in the 15th-16th century; octagonal basin decorated with trefoiled tracery; on octagonal-to-square base. Wooden cover, octagonal, flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.384644, 7.267245
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 23′ 4.72″ N, 7° 16′ 2.08″ E
UTM: 32T 366762 5138244

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]