Brenken

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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4

Scene Description: one of them now(?) detached and with a gap behind

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cleric - bishop - 4?

Scene Description: the one in the centre perhaps Boniface? or St Kilian, patron saint of this church? [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arch - round arch - columsn with capitals and bases

Scene Description: a single arch housing the seated main figure

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design element - architectural - column - with capitals and bases

Scene Description: supporting the large moulding except where the single arch is

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Brenken, Kirche"

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bild der Brenkener Kirche"

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 SDecember 2008 by Benutzer:THWler 33142 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brenkener_Kirche.JPG] [accessed 2 February 2023]

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gotischer Katharinenaltar in St. Kilian (Brenken)"

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Taufstein in St. Kilian (Brenken):"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00349BRE
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Kilian
Church Patron Saints: St. Kilian [aka Cillian, Killian, Kilianus]
Church Location: Kilianstraße 45, 33142 Büren, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Detmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the L637 [aka Kilianstraße], S of county road 44, in the municipality and NNE of Büren / Bueren, about 22 km SW of Paderborn
Ecclesiastic Region: Diozese Paderborn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1170?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: another font resting on lions at Methelin
Church Notes: church documented early-11thC, but Carolingian building excavated in 1978; modified 12th-13thC; renovated 1920s, 1978
Lübke (1870) notes a font in this church that "rests on forms of lions". Noted and illustrated by J. Pieper in Romanische Taufstein Zu Brenken, in Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst, Volume 1 (1888: 240-244); Pieper (ibid.) suggests the centre figure, seated and haloed, could be St . Boniface, archbishop of Mainz known as the 7th-8th century "Apostle of the Germans"; Pieper (ibid.) identifies the font as monolithic and made of sandstone. The font has a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with figures all around; several of them are standing and dressed as bishops, each mitred and carrying an episcopal or abatial staff and a book; one of the figures dressed also as a bishop, carrying the staff and the book is haloed and seated in a large throne [cf. supra], and is framed in an arch all by himself; the base has two large roll mouldings, and four couchant lions below; one of the lions is detached from the main volume, which has a large gap where the lion would fit. Large wooden cover of conical shape and carved sides, and a round finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.583157, 8.591824
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 59.36″ N, 8° 35′ 30.56″ E
UTM: 32U 471719 5714756

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 117 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Pieper (1888)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870