Alfhausen
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Pfarreiengemeinschaft Hasegrund [http://pfarreiengemeinschaft-hasegrund.de/home/sakramente/das-sakrament-der-taufe/] [accessed 10 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
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design element - motifs - vine
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RoswithaC, 2008
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Magdalena Kormann, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2010 by Magdalena Kormann, in the Osnabrücker Zeitung [www.noz-cdn.de/media/2013/09/12/renate-rickelmann-osterfeld-mitte-am-taufbrunnen_full.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02568ALF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannis
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: original chapel-of-ease to Ankum probably 11thC; first documented 1169; church here 13thC;
Church Address: St.-Johannis-Straße, 49594 Alfhausen, Germany
Site Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: About 20-22 kms N of Osnabrück, up the 68 road to Bersenbrück.
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Additional Comments: painted font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Mithoff (1871-1880) and in Ligtenberg (1915). Medieval baptismal font listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Berge b. Type II", a group of fonts that includes those at Alfhausen, Badbergen, Bippen, Borken, Heek, Lathen, Nordherringen, Salzbergen, Schapen, Schepsdorf, Südkirchen, Utrecht (Katharinenkonvent), Weerselo, Wettringen and Wissel. Noted and illustrated in the Pfarreiengemeinschaft Hasegrund [http://pfarreiengemeinschaft-hasegrund.de/home/sakramente/das-sakrament-der-taufe/] [accessed 10 February 2016]. The font, which is painted, consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with [top down] a double-rope moulding, a vine, another double-rope moulding, and a blind arcade of round arches on short plain columns; roll moulding atop the round-to-square base, four couchant-regardant lions at 90-degree angles of the central broad shaft. Flat and round font cover with hasp to lock on the upper side of the basin.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 428904 5817192
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.50022, 7.95265
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 0.79″ N, 7° 57′ 9.54″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 74, 177 and fig. 13
- 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. 173
- Mithoff, Hector Wilhelm Heinrich, Kunstdenkmale und Alterthümer im Hannoverschen (7 Bände), Hannover: Helwing, 1871-1880, Bd. VI: 12