Twisteden

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Quirinus Twisteden in Kevelaer-Twisteden, Dorfstraße."
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2020 by Bubo bubo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kevelaer-Twisteden-KircheStQuirinus-1-Bubo.JPG] [accessed 26 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00424TWI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Quirinus Twisteden in Kevelaer, Dorfstraße
Church Patron Saints: St. Quirinus
Church Location: Dorfstraße 2-10, 47624 Kevelaer, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Kleve, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located of the K17-K36 crossroads, W of road (BS) 9, in the municipality and about a mile SW of Kevelaer, near the border with the Netherlands
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel
Date: 1471
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
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 of 1471
Font Notes:
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Late-gothic Mosan/Namur limestone baptismal font made of Mosan limestone in 1471. Noted in Walther Zimmermann's Romanische Taufsteine am Niederrhein, Annalen des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, 1954, Heft 155-156: "Der Taufstein, der heute in der Taufkapelle in der Neuen Kirche steht, stammt ebenfalls aus dem Jahre 1471 [...] Taufsteine aus Namurer Blaustein gleicher Qualität von 1471 existieren in Dinant/Belgien und in St. Quirinus Kevelaer-Twisteden." The entry for this church in the St. Antonius in Kevelaer parish web site [https://www.antonius-kevelaer.de/kirchen/st-quirinus-kirche-twisteden] [accessed 26 February 2023] as a baptismal font of the time of this church, 1471: "Im Jahre 1471 wurde in Twisteden die Alte Kirche und am 11. November 1471 die Vikaria Beatae Mariae Virginis (alte Pastorat) an der Kuhstraße errichtet. Der Taufstein aus dem gleichen Jahr bezeugt immerhin das Recht, in dieser Kirche zu taufen." The font consists of a round basin with four protruding human heads set at 90-degree angles, as is customary in this type of font, a double moulding all around the besin just below the upper rim; short plain cylindrical stem; round to square lower base with decorative motifs [perhaps a date on it?]. Dome cover of metal decorated with a scalloped pattern; has Latin inscription around the lower part; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.553653, 6.211533
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 33′ 13.15″ N, 6° 12′ 41.52″ E
UTM: 32U 306689 5715082
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Mosan/Namur)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) (with heads)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Karlsson, Lennart, "Tradition och förnyelse", 1985
Ruprich-Robert, V., Architecture normande aux XIe et XIIe siècles en Normandie et en Angleterre, Paris: Libraririe des imprimeries réunies, 1884-1889