Laatsch / Laad / Laudes / Laut / Lautis / Lootsch

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franz J Paulmichl / SEM, 2024

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Franz J Paulmichl, In SEM [https://sem-mals.org/laatsch/] [accessed 14 September 2024]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around the middle of the basin

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information

Scene Description: label by the old font: perhaps it would safer to qualify it as medieval than Romanesque

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symbol - floral - fleur de lis

Scene Description: several large ones around the underbowl

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Laudes-Laatsch, Chiesa di Laudes"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2011 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laudes-Laatsch,_Chiesa_di_Laudes_001.JPG] [accessed 14 September 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarre St. Luzius Laatsch" -- showing partially the modern font and cover on the right, in the southeast corner of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © qwesy qwesy, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2013 by qwesy qwesy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfarre_St._Luzius_Laatsch_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: note damages and repairs on it; restored in 2012 -- not clear whether both parts of the font are original

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franz J Paulmichl / SEM, 2024

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font after its 2012 restoration

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Laudes-Laatsch, Chiesa di Laudes" -- showing the modern font and cover in the southeast corner of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 August 2011 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laudes-Laatsch,_Chiesa_di_Laudes_003.JPG] [accessed 14 September 2024]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: the modern font and cover located in the southeast corner of the nave

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source: "Das alte Taufbecken"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25702LAA
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche hl. Luzius / Chiesa di San Lucio
Church Patron Saints: St. Lucius
Church Location: Laatsch, 14, 39024 Laatsch, Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, Italy
Country Name: Italy
Location: Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Directions to Site: Located off road SS40, N of the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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: medieval church demolished ca. 1900 except for the tower, which remains extant; new church built nearby
There appear to be two baptismal fonts in this church: 1) the modern baptismal font in use, located in the southeast corner of the nave; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decoeared with trefoiled panels with inscribed motifs and symbols; raised on a slender pedestal made of gour clustered colonnettes; it has a domed and decorated cover on it; 2) a baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with round arch-heads, a rope moulding and fleurs-de-lis; plain pedestal base which may or may not be original; the basin shows damages and repairs on it; it was restored in 2012.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.680135, 10.534325
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 40′ 48.49″ N, 10° 32′ 3.57″ E
UTM: 32T 617341 5170763

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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