Burg / Burg bei Stein am Rhein
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 February 2024)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Exterior of St. John Church, Stein am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ymblanter, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 August 2020 by Ymblanter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stein_am_Rhein_St._John_Church_exterior_2.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2024]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Exterior of St. John Church, Stein am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ymblanter, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 August 2020 by Ymblanter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stein_am_Rhein_St._John_Church_exterior_1.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2024]
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view of church interior - chancel - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the northeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 February 2024)
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St. John Church, Stein am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ymblanter, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2020 by Ymblanter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stein_am_Rhein_St._John_Church_interior_2.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St. John Church, Stein am Rhein, Schaffhausen, Switzerland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ymblanter, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2020 by Ymblanter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stein_am_Rhein_St._John_Church_interior_1.jpg] [accessed 4 February 2024]
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: the basin appears to have been restored and re-tooled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beat Junger, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2020 by Beat Junger, in the Ev.-ref. Kirchgemeinde Burg
Stein am Rhein [https://www.ref-sh.ch/kg/burg/album/5549] [accessed 4 February 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25308BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche St. Johann auf Burg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NE corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist & St. John the Evangelist
Church Notes: original wooden church of mid-16thC; earliest part of present church 799; chancel of 13thC with paintings of 1420; church modified 17th and 18thc
Church Address: Uf Burg 3, 8260 Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
Site Location: Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 13, on the S bank of the Rhine river, 25-30 km W of Konstanz, in the 3rdC Roman fort, Castrum Tasgetium
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? (the one(s) from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal in this church consists of an octagonal basin with a protruding moulding at the upper rim, graded below; plain rounded underbowl; raised on an octagonal-to-square base. The wooden cover is cotagonal, flat and plain; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 489404 5278156
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.65671, 8.85889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 39′ 24.16″ N, 8° 51′ 32″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]