Alfhausen

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.