Middels

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Scene Description: the attending angel on the left, part of the Baptism of Christ scene -- to the right, Mary swooning in John's arms, part of the Crucifixion scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - Mary Magdalene? - John the Evangelist - Longinus?

Scene Description: Mary swoons into John's arms; the identification of the two figures directly beneath the arms of the cross is tentative; the figure on the left appears to be a woman; the one on the right is a soldier armed with a sacabbarded sword in his belt; in his right appears to hold a scroll, not a lance or a sponge.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - Mary Magdalene? - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - detail

Scene Description: Mary swoons in John's arms

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - Mary Magdalene? - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - detail

Scene Description: is the figure on the left Mary Magdalen?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - Mary Magdalene? - John the Evangelist - Longinus? - detail

Scene Description: is it Longinus?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - angels present - soldiers sleep

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - angels present - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - angels present - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - angels present - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit

Scene Description: some of the 'content' of the vine relates to the scene below, as is the case here, above the Crucifixion of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit - detail

Scene Description: a bird picking at fruit and a fabulous animal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit - detail

Scene Description: two birds (doves?) picking at fruit; the cross and banderole below belong to Christ's crooss-and-banner in the scene of the Harrowing of Hell below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit - detail

Scene Description: below, on the left, the attending angel of the Baptism of Christ scene; below, on the right, John supports a swooning Mary in the Crucifixion scene -- notice the traces of paint in the interstices of the vine

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit - detail

Scene Description: birds directly above the attending angel of the Baptism of Christ scene -- notice the traces of paint in the interstices of the deeply-carved vine

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthuss - inhabited - human - fabulous animal or monster - fruit - detail

Scene Description: a diving angel with human busts to the sides, the angel certainly related to the Crucifixion scene below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: plaque outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: plaque on the side of the bell tower in the churchyard, a "Höhenfestpunkt" marke

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: on the left, one of the two sleeping soldiers from the Resurrection scene; on the right, Christ's foot presses down on Satan's left hind leg

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: there is no drain hole; the upper rim surface shows no staples or anchorage points for the old cover hardware, but the indentation on the inner side indicates the font was designed to be used with a cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - bell-cote

Scene Description: the detached tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - bell-cote

Scene Description: the detached tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by GregorHelms [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelser_Kirche_(Osten).JPG]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchMiddels.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by GregorHelms [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelser_Kirche_(Altarraum).JPG]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2007 by Dennis Wubs [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4721024_Middels_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2014]

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

view of font

Image Source: photograph taken [ca. 1999?] by by Colin S. Drake, 1999

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - southwest view

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - west side

Scene Description: [NB: orinetation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font with its baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest side

Scene Description: the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02090MID

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Middelser Kirche

Church Location: Alter Heerweg 24, OT Middels, 26607 Aurich, Germany -- Tel.: 04 94 78 14

Country Name: Germany

Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located on the 210, between Aurich (WSW) and Wittmund (ENE)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bremen

Historical Region: Ostfriesland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century (mid-to-late?), Early Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Westphalian tub-font [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: Marienkirche at Nesse [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church date ca. 1200; "Granitquaderkirche" i.e., made of ashlar blocks of granite

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Kroesen & Steensma (2004) as a baptismal font of Baumberg sandstone, which they compare and contrast with the one at Sillenstede: "In Middels [the figures] are lively and sometimes even dramatic [... in the crucifixion...] the Virgin is collapsing in sorrow and being caught by St. John [... in the Descent into Hell...] Christ is an extremely active figure who has thrown the devil to the ground with his left foot and is shoving the pole of the victory banner into his jaws [...] He is also pulling Adam up from hell, who puts his foot on the head of the devil. Even the rocks of the gates of Hell have been drawn into the whole composition by a twist in the other direction." Drake notes: "One of the Westfalian tub fonts. Harrowing of Hell shown and it has the Crucifixion, Baptism of Christ and -I think- Christ's Resurrection" [source: description and archive photograph courtesy of C.S Drake [letter to BSI of 26 August 1998]]. On-site noted: the one-volume font is practically cylindrical, with a very slight tapering in towards the bottom; there is no drainage inside the basin; there is a squat base or plinth, plain and narrower than the bottom of the basin; appears modern. The font has no cover proper, but a metal baptismal dish is in use, a common occurrence in the north. There are, as suggested above, four scenes on the sides of the font [L->R]: 1)Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, with the Baptist, the angel holding ckothes, and the dove above Christ's head; 2)Crucifixion, with, beneath the arms of the cross, Longinus (?) to the right and, a robed figure to the left [NB: the upper part of the robed figure is damaged but it appears to be a woman; perhaps Mary Magdalene?]; on the extreme the left of the scene is John holding in his arms a swooning Mary; 3)Resurrection; Christ, in orant position, rises from the tomb between two attending angels; in the foregorund, at the level of the tomb, two armed soldiers sleep head-to-toe; 4)Harrowing of Hell, as described above, packed with action and figures; beautiful detail of a fleur-de-lis hinge from the doors of Hell. A beautifully rendered acanthus vine runs around the upper sides of the basin, populated with all kinds of beasts and [semi?] humans. The font, considering its age, is in a reasonable state of repair, and is still used for baptisms with the use of a modern metal insert atop. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.536936, 7.621507

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 32′ 12.97″ N, 7° 37′ 17.42″ E

UTM: 32U 408643 5932887

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bamberg)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 81-82 cm

Basin Depth: 44 cm

Basin Total Height: 79 cm

Height of Base: 10 cm [modern lower base or plinth]

Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 89 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Reissland, Ingrid, "Weihekreuze und Runen: Das Taufbecken der St. Martinuskirche Hellefeld -ein kunsthistorisches Kleinod besonderer Art", Sauerländer heimatbund e.V., [2004?]