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coat of arms - Johann Rudolf Kyburz and Katharina Salome Lupicius

Scene Description: a pastor and his wife [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Village of Diemtigen: Diemtigtaler Hauswege, Haus 3A: Kirche"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kaspar Neuenschwander, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 January 2008 by Kaspar Neuenschwander [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_from_Ried_towards_Diemtigen.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover - west side

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view of font and cover in context - west side

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view of font and cover in context - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24842DIE
Church/Chapel: Reformierte Kirche [St. Nikolaus und St. Katharina Kirche]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra & St. Catherine
Church Location: Dorf 24-30, 3754 Diemtigen, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern
Directions to Site: Located S of road 11, 8 km WSW of Spiez and the Thunersee
Historical Region: Bernese Oberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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 documented 1314 but probably built originally betweem 950 and 1200; extended 1490; Reformed 1527
Late-Gothic font here noted in the Reformierte Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn entry for this church [https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/073-diemtigen-kirche-diemtigen] [accessed 1 August 2023]. The octagonal font bears the coats of arms of a pastor and his wife ["spätgotischer Taufstein mit dem Wappen von Pfarrer Johann Rudolf Kyburz und seiner Gattin Katharina Salome Lupicius"], as identified in the diemtigtal.webschiff [https://diemtigtal.webschiff.ch/vorderes-tal/i/66333044/copy-church] [accessed 1 August 2023]. The font consists of an octagonal basin moulded at the upper rim, bearing the arms of a pastor and his wife [cf. supra]; on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base. Wooden cover, octagonal and flat, with moulded sides; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.6494, 7.56595
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 38′ 57.84″ N, 7° 33′ 57.42″ E
UTM: 32T 390265 5167203

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the west side of the basin
Inscription Text: N/A [Wappen von Pfarrer Johann Rudolf Kyburz und seiner Gattin Katharina Salome Lupicius]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

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