Neuenkirchen in Neuenkirchen-Vörden nr. Vechta / Neuenkirchen
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles of the base
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: attached to the central shaft, in the spaces between the lions
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design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand - braided
Scene Description: very angular
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with some geometric elements
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design element - motifs - vine
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02565NEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Bonifatius zu Neuenkirchen / St. Bonifatiuskirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]? or Boniface of Savoy?]
Church Location: Am Kirchplatz 1, 49434 Neuenkirchen-Vörden - Niedersachsen, Germany -- Tel.: 05493/234
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vechta, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located 30 km SW of Vechta, 30 km N of Osnabrück, in the municipality of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group 7 [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kunsdenk[...] Oldenburg (1896-1909). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). In Carlsson (1976). In "Der romanische Taufstein der Pfarrkirche zu Neuenkirchen", Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale (1991-1998). Classed in Drake (2002) as a font of the Bentheim School, group 7, with cognate font at Suurhusen. Baptismal font consisting of a slightly taperin round basin decorated with three parallel mouldings that separate a vine with some geometric elements, a band of angular interlace and another vine; raised on a round-to-square pedestal base with four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft; on a modern two-step plinth. Metal font cover, round, with raised central part; overlaps the upper rim of the basin.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 436667 5818915
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm
Basin Total Height: 41 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 85 x 85 cm
Notes on Measurements: "Der romanische Taufstein der Pfarrkirche zu Neuenkirchen", Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale, 1991-1998, XI (1998), p. 74-86)
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, with raised centre; overlaps upper rim of the basin
REFERENCES
Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909
Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991-1998
Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 174