Schoningen / Schöningen

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: brightly painted

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lorenz von Südosten mit der Mauer des Klostergartens"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Okernick, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2013 by Okernick [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StLorenz_SuedOst_2013.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2017]

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02544SCH
Church/Chapel: Ev. - luth. Kirche St. Lorenz [former Augustinian collegiate]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Klosterfreiheit 9c, 38364 Schöningen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5352 4776
Country Name: Germany
Location: Helmstedt, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Schoningen lies about 40 kms S-E of Braunschweig, 11 km S of Helmstedt on the B244 (direction Wernigerode)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: monastery founded ca. 1120 -- photographic study of the church interior by Raymond Faure in http://www.raymond-faure.com/Schoeningen/Schoeningen_St_Lorenz_Chor.html [accessed 24 February 2017]
Baptismal font of the late Romanesque period (Wulf, 1996, p. 61). The font consists of a hemispherical basin with a thin torus-scotia-torus motif ubelow the upper rim, the scotia painted pink/red; round-to-square base with roll moulding at the top and flat moulding at the bottom. No cover present but the font has a metal (?) grid that supports a small basin used for baptisms now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.13879, 10.95711
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 19.64″ N, 10° 57′ 25.6″ E
UTM: 32U 633934 5778281

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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