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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the sides, between the heads

Image Source: digital photograph 27 October 2018 by Iris & Harry, in Waymarking [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMZ8BD_Baptismal_font_Aachen_Cathedral_Aachen_NRW_Germany] [accessed 10 March 2023]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Aachener Dom, Chorhaus der Kathedrale"

Image Source: digital pgotograph 10 August 2014 by HOWI [Willy Horst] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1414_-_2014._600_Jahre_Chorhalle_des_Aachener_Doms,_Südostseite.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Westwerk am Domhof des Doms zu Aachen"

Image Source: digital pgotograph 10 August 2014 by HOWI [Willy Horst] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aachener_Dom,_Westwerk_am_Domhof.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der Aachener Dom gehört zum Weltkulturerbe"

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2017 by Udo.klingel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Aachener_Dom,.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2023]

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view of font and cover - upper view

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the Karlskapelle [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: brass cover of 1696

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph in Aachener Dom [https://dombauhuette-aachen.de/taufstein/] [accessed 10 March 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00497AAC

Church/Chapel: Romish Khatolische Aachener Dom [aka Hoher Dom zu Aachen / Aachener Münster / Aachener Marienkirche]

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Domhof 1, 52062 Aachen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 241 477090

Country Name: Germany

Location: Aachen, Nordhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located S of the A76, just E of the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, about 33 km E of Maastricht. The cathedral is located in the old city centre, insde the ring-road (1-1a-57)

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only], Romanesque [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?

Church Notes: consecrated 805;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Waymarking [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMZ8BD_Baptismal_font_Aachen_Cathedral_Aachen_NRW_Germany] [accessed 10 March 2023]: a font made of Namur limestone and dated to the late 12th century (except for the base); the brass cover being from 1696; the same source notes that excavations in 1987/1988 discovered fragments of a bluestone font buried in the Johanneskapelle. After several moves the font was installed in the Karlskapelle in 2014. The baptismal font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with four human heads set at 90-degree angles; between the heads are large foliage motifs [are they the extended wings of the heads?] the underbowl appears to have several (6?/ 8?) mouldings that may have topped colonnettes around a broad central shaft, but nly the latter remains; the present lower base is hexagonal and moulded, obviously a later addition or replacement. As indicated above, the brass cover is late-17th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.77475, 6.083922

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 29.1″ N, 6° 5′ 2.12″ E

UTM: 32U 294409 5628831

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1696

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: round low dome brass cover; 1696

REFERENCES

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984