Lauenen / Lauvine / Lavina
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design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: all around both basin and base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Reformierte Kirche in Lauenen (BE)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Zumbuehl, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2008 by Roland Zumbuehl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B-Lauenen-Ref-Kirche.jpg] [accessed 31 July 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the metal partitioned insert inside the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of font in context - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Lauenen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2011 in the Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Lauenen [https://www.kirche-lauenen.ch/kontakt] [accessed 31 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24841LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Reformierte Kirche Lauenen [aka Petruskirche]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Kirchstrasse 20, 3782 Lauenen, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Obersimmental-Saanen, Bern
Directions to Site: Located 8-9 km S of Saanen and road 11, in the Bernese Oberland
Historical Region: Bernese Oberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Saanen, in the same district
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: present church of ca. 1520, built on an earlier church here
Font Notes:
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Die Kirche von Lauenen im Saanerland, in the Die Berner Woche, 33 (1943), Heft 46 [Die Kirche von Lauenen im Saanerland [https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-649310] [accessed 31 July 2023] reports a stone font of the late-Gothic period, as old as the church ["Der spätgotische Taufstein ist wohl so alt wie die Kircke."] The Kirchenvisite. Die Kirchengebäude im Gebiet der Reformierten Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn entry for this church [https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/149-lauenen-kirche-lauenen] [accessed 31 July 2023] illustrates the font in it and dates it to the 18th century ["Zur Innenausstattung gehören ein Netzrippentaufstein aus dem 18. Jahrhundert"], but the octagonal font looks very much a 15th- or 16th-century vessel decorated with a large reticular pattern, as noted above. There is now a metal insert inside the basin, one that has a partition to created two wells inside. Modern cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.424700, 7.320979
UTM: 32T 370638 5141720
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal insert with two internal divisions
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; modern