Straelen / Strale

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: two of them on this side: John's eagle (left) and Mark's lion (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: two of them on this side: Matthew's angel (left) and Luke's bull (tight)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Joseph sitting - with staff

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

BH01: human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: on the northeast side [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

BH02: human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: on the northwest side [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

BH03: human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: on the southwest side [orientation is approximate]; damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

BH04: human figure - head, face or mask

Scene Description: on the southeast side [orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - round

they appear only on the south and east sides, and are very stylised arch-heads, looking almost like side parentheses; the ones on the south side [Nativity scene] have decorated spandrels

Scene Description: they appear only on the south and east sides, and are very stylised arch-heads, looking almost like side parentheses; the ones on the south side [Nativity scene] have decorated spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: only present in the spandrels of the south side scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - gargoyle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2010 by Michielverbeek [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Straelen,_kerk_vanaf_centraal_plein_foto1_2010-05-05_18.10.JPG] [accessed 1 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the main altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - railing - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - railing - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - railing - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - railing - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: late-15thC retable with the life of Mary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - mortheast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - northwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - southwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - west side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00410STR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche [Hauptkirche] St. Peter und Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Kirchplatz 10, 47638 Straelen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2834 93350

Country Name: Germany

Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 58, 10 km NE of Venlo, 24 km NW of Krefeld, near the border with the Netherlands

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Düsseldorf

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Date: ca. 1150-1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Furnaux [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original church [ca. 1200?] burned down in 1386; re-built 1387; extended 1498

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Mosan group, consisting of a round bowl mounted on a five-support base (columns): "On two of the four panels are the signs of the Evangelists in pairs, of which only Matthew is nimbed, although all are winged [...]. The other two faces have Biblical scenes depicted beneath a Lombard frieze. On one side three arches frame the Nativity; the centre arch is wide and depressed and contains the Virgin abed. To the left is the crib, with ox and ass standing beside it, and on the right Joseph sleeps in a chair, his right hand on the head of a staff. The other panel has four arches of equal width; left to right these contain two Magi en face, the third facing right towards the fourth arch in which the Virgin, frontal, is enthroned with the Child on her lap." Catalogued and ilustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Furneaux, made of limestone (calcaire viséen ou dévonien), ca. 1150-1160, on which four scenes ["tableau"] can be identified: A)Nativity; B)Adoration of the Magi; C)symbols for Matthew and Mark; D)symbols for John and Luke. Ghislain (ibid.) remarks on detail similarities with fonts at Othée, Hanzinnes, Zedelghem, Noordpeene and Gand/Ghent. On-site notes: there are four panels on the sides of the basin, separated by four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles; beginning on the east side [L->R]: 1)Adoration of the Magi with Madonna and Child; 2-3)the symbols of the four Evangelists: John's eagle and Mark's winged lion in the second panel; Matthew's angel and Luke's winged bull in the third panel; only the angel is haloed; 4)Nativity; Mary has her expresionless face turned towards the viewer, but the body is quite uncharacteristically rendered; to the left is the Child in the manger, the two animals leaning on it; Joseph is shown on the right of the scene, seated, his right hand leaning on a short staff; like Mary's, his face is turned towards the viewer, but he has with wide open eyes and mouth, as in a scream; the spandrels in the arch-heads of this scene have foliated motifs in them; there is no drain hole in the basin; brass cover in the shape of an octagonal building on a round base decorated with lovely palmette motif; it is fixed to the basin's upper rim; the upper part of the building is hinged at the back so it can be tilted back open for access to the interior; the font is raised on two plinths, the lower of which appears modern. The carving style is quite original, as is the rendering of the scenes, the dynamics of the figures quite interesting. There are several spots of damage on the basin, including one on the north side that affects the carving of John's eagle. The font appears to be made of a limestone of the type found in the Tournai and some Namur fonts, one that can acquire a dark brilliance where polished.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.44458, 6.26753

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 26′ 40.49″ N, 6° 16′ 3.11″ E

UTM: 32U 310118 5702808

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 80 cm* / 81 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 94-100 cm* / 105 cm**

Basin Depth: 23 cm* / 24 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 27 cm*

Basin Total Height: 35 cm* / **

Height of Base: 56 cm*

Height of Central Column: 50 cm* / 46 cm**

Height of Side Columns: 46 cm* / **

Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm* [includes lower base of 10 cm]

Font Height (with Plinth): 118 cm* [includes two plinths [13 + 14 cm]] / 103 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 84 x 89 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Ghislain (2009)

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass and bronze

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009