Legnica / Liegnitz
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
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New Testament - childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - penned animals in stable - star
Scene Description: Mary seated on the left; Joseph standing on the right
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New Testament - childhood and youth of Christ - presentation in the temple
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angel
Scene Description: on the stem of the base, between the arches
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design element - architectural - arcade - quatrefoiled
Scene Description: openwork, all around the stem of the base
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals and bases - torsade columns
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: claw-like legs with patterned backs
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: some openwork among them
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human figure - head
Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the arcade
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inscription - detail
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symbol - star - 6 points
Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the arcade
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Legnica, kościół par. p.w. śś. Piotra i Pawła, ob. katedra, 1333-1390, 1863-1894"
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Legnica, portal katedry śś. Piotra i Pawła od strony rynku."
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Legnica, katedra Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła."
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Legnica, katedra Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła."
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "chrzcielnica gotycka w katedrze"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02550LEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katedra Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła w Legnicy
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: plac Katedralny 6, 59-220 Legnica, Poland -- Tel.: +48 500 245 557
Country Name: Poland
Location: Wroclaw, Województwo dolnośląskie / Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Directions to Site: Legnica (Liegnitz) is in the province of Wroclaw (Breslau), 64 km W of the city of Wroclaw. The cathedral is located in the old city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: first mentioned 1208; present building 1333-1380; modified 15th and 19thC; raised to status of cathedral in 1992
Font Notes:
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"Fonts baptismaux de Legnica (Liegnitz), XIIIe s." and inscription (Favreau, 1985, footnote 106). The Wikipedia entry for the cathedral [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Apostles_Peter_and_Paul_in_Legnica] [accessed 23 February 2025] reports: "a bronze baptismal font in the shape of a 13th-century mass chalice". The basin is decorated with scenes of the Vita Christi cycle in an arcade of trefoiled arches that has human heads an six-pointed stars in the spandrels;above the arcade runs an inscription; the slender pedestal base is decorated with an arcade of opemwork with standing angels between the arches; the lower base is decorated with varied motifs, some of which openwork; stands om foliated legs shaped like leaves. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.206944, 16.161667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 25″ N, 16° 9′ 42″ E
UTM: 33U 581149 5673480
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: type unknown
Font Shape: Unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: Translation: The baptized is re-born in the font of baptism
Inscription Location: on the basin side below the upper rim
Inscription Text: "+ HIC - BAPTIZATUM - BAPTISMI - FONTE - RENATUM"
Inscription Source: Favreau (1985, footnote 106)
REFERENCES
Favreau, Robert, "Inscription des fonts baptismaux d'Hildesheim", 38, 2, Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 1985, pp. 115-140; footnote 106 for the inscription