Lippoldsberg

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] -- on the east side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - Herod gives orders

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - slaying the dragon

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - slaying the dragon - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - St. Peter - St. Paul (St. John?)

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - St. Peter - St. Paul (St. John?) - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - St. Peter - St. Paul (St. John?) - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B04: cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - holding staff - standing on postrate human - St. Stephen?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B05: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B05: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - haloed - standing - right hand raised in benediction - holding book in left hand - standing on postrate human - detail - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - haloed - standing - right hand raised in benediction - holding book in left hand - standing on postrate human - unidentified

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple - detail

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B08: Apostle or saint - haloed - crowned - unidentified - standing - holding sword in the right hand - holding shield in left hand - standing on postrate human - St. George? or St. Cornelius?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B08: Apostle or saint - haloed - crowned - unidentified - standing - holding sword in the right hand - holding shield in left hand - standing on postrate human - St. George? or St. Cornelius?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B08: Apostle or saint - haloed - crowned - unidentified - standing - holding sword in the right hand - holding shield in left hand - standing on postrate human - St. George? or St. Cornelius?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B09: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - John the Baptist - angel holding clothes - God the Father above - Holy Ghost dove above

Scene Description: all haloed except the dove; God the Father's head in a semicircle decorated with frill or rays; Christ totally naked; no obvious water, unless the promontory behind Christ is meant to represent it [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - haloed - with wheel - with palm branch - standing on postrate human

Scene Description: tentative identification; the wheel has survived well, but the postrate figure could be of human or animal shape

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - haloed - with wheel - with palm branch - standing on postrate human

Scene Description: tentative identification

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - haloed - with wheel - with palm branch - standing on postrate human

Scene Description: tentative identification

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - haloed - with wheel - with palm branch - standing on postrate human

Scene Description: tentative identification; animal or human?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - haloed - with wheel - with palm branch - standing on postrate human

Scene Description: Catherine's wheel?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B11: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ with Nicodemus

Scene Description: (John 3:1-21) [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B11: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ with Nicodemus - detail

Scene Description: in the spangle of the two pointed arch-heads is a head with a cruciferous nimbus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

B12: Apostle or Saint - holding sword in the right hand - holding shield in left hand - standing on postrate human - St. George? - St. Cornelius?

Scene Description: in a trefoiled arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled

Scene Description: one of several arches on the basin side containing figures or scenes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed

Scene Description: one of several arches on the basin side containing figures or scenes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: one of several arches on the basin side containing figures or scenes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: on the upper panels, between the protruding sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

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design element - motifs - vine

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: damaged area

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: the light shines through a pipe inserted in the damaged area of the upper side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: several of the on the sides of the niches that house the six saintly figures around the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: there may have been a centre drain; cemented over later?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - monument

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - monument - detail

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - monument - detail

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west portal - door

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view of church exterior - west portal - door - detail

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - west tower - detail

Scene Description: the top of the tower from the northeast

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - west gallery

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view of church interior - west gallery - detail

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view of church interior - west gallery - detail

Scene Description: an internal door [vestry?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - west gallery - detail

Scene Description: knocker on the interior door in the west gallery [vestry?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - east side

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the main apse

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02539LIP

Church/Chapel: Klosterkirche Sankt Georg und Maria [former chapel of the Benedictine convent; today a Protestant church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. George

Church Location: Klosterhof, 37194 Wahlsburg, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Kassel, Hesse

Directions to Site: Lippoldsberg lies about 80 kms S of Hannover, in the Weser-Bergland area, about 60 kms NW of Gottingen.

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz

Historical Region: Hessen-Kassel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the main apse

Date: ca. 1230-1240?

Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: first wooden church here said to have been built 1050-1059; stone church built soon thereafter by Kaiser Heinrich; a 'Frauenkloster' or 'Frauenstift'; the first document from the convent is dated between 1099 and 1101; a church here built in the model of Mainz Cathedral was consecrated in 1151; the original tower was destroyed in the Thirsty Years War, re-built in 1667 although the present dome dates from 1722

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Ahrens (1992). Wulf (1996) describes it as a baptismal font of the early 16th century having six semicircular turrets in the trilobed niches with figures of saints; the intermediary fields are framed top and bottom by a band of palmettes and rings and show, under an arch, carved figures of remarkable quality; the six now badly eroded scenes, are identified as: the baptism of Christ, Christ and Nicodemus, the massacre of the Innocents, Christ in Majesty between Peter and John, the deluge and one other, unidentified, scene. Noted in Drake (2002) as one of a group of Westphalian cylinder fonts, a sub-group of which have figures beneath a Lombard frieze (sub-group B3) [the fonts listed in this sub-group are: Aplerbeck, Bochum, Bramsche, Hagen, Lippoldsberg, Rastede]. On-site notes: six-sided basin with scenes on the sides and figures at the rounded angles; beginning on the present east side: 1)Massacre of the Innocents in a round arch - corner: St. Michael fighting the dragon in a trefoil arch; 2)Majestas Domini with St. Pater and St. Paul (John?) - corner: St. Stephenl? [Bishop standing on postrate animal?]; 3)Ascension of Christ with Apostles present [Deluge?] - corner: a haloed figure standing on a postrate human; 4)Presentation at the Temple - corner: St. George? St. Cornelius? [haloed figure armed with sword and shield stands on postrate human]; 5)Baptism of Christ in the Jordan - corner: St. Catherine of Alexandria [haloed figure armed with wheel and palm branch stands on postrate creature]; 6)Christ and Nicodemus? in a double pointed arch (figure on the left has cruciferous nimbus; figure on the right has characteristic Jew hat) - corner: St. George? St. Cornelius? [figure wearing armour holds banner in right hand and shield in left; standing on a postrate human]; the whole in a trefoiled arch. The corners are tower-shaped, and have Greek crosses carved on the sides; on the upper side of the basin; between the tower tops are bands of fine vine pattern. The Presentation scene is badly damaged but a figure on the right appears to hold a candle. The font appears to have been removed from the church and buried in the churchyard during the mandate of Landgraf Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, between 1592 and 1627, and the enforcement of his puritanical Calvinist 'Zweite Reformation'; it was unearthed in the 19th century and re-installed inside the church; the old basin now stands on a short and plain hexagonal base, modern. The old cover was lost, but the upper rim of the basin still has the scars from its metal staples, some of which remain; there is also a metal tube inserted through one of the holes on the side of the rim. A modern ceramic baptismal dish is supported by a metal rack, also modern. There appears to have been a centre drain hole in the basin, but it has been cemented over.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6254, 9.5575

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 31.44″ N, 9° 33′ 27″ E

UTM: 32U 538591 5719523

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hexagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12-19 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 78-80 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 102-115 cm

Basin Depth: 40-42 cm

Basin Total Height: 80 cm

Height of Base: 20 cm [modern]

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* [includes modern base]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Wulf, Walter, Saxe romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1996