Borken / Buorken
Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
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Results: 22 records
animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant
Scene Description: one of four figures, some human, some animal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the upper end of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the upper rim of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions
Scene Description: around the middle of the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - palmette
Scene Description: around the upper side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_fries_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze
Scene Description: sharing the lower basin side with a row of human heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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human figure - male - atlante
Scene Description: one of four figures, some human, some animal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
human figure - male - head
Scene Description: a row of them shares the lower side of the basin with a band of fan-frieze
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of base
Scene Description: in the centre of the image a human figure in atlante position holds the thick moulding of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: a fountain within the metal insert atop the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_detail_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke_(fanáut_it_súdeasten).jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Remigius in Borken in Westfalen. Das Bild entstand während des Münsterland-Fotoflugs am 20. Juli 2014."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Günter Seggebäing, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2014 by Wlatzmann [Günter Seggebäing, Coesfeld]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_ynterieur.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_haadoargel_(Siegfried_Sauer).jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borken,_Sint-Remigiustsjerke,_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2017]
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: with the large copper insert used for baptisms
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 21 October 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02578BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Propsteikirche [ecclesia praeposita] St. Remigius
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Location: Remigiusstraße, 46325 Borken, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: This Borken (there are several "Borken" in Germany and in the Netherlands) is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, 15-20 km E of Bocholt on the Bundestrasse 67, to the N of Duisburg and Essen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the choir
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Götterswickerhamm
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this curch and font
Church Notes: excavations unearthed a wooden Carolingian church of the late-9thC; stone church built ca. 1150; re-built ca. 1433; heavily damaged in March 1945, WWII; re-built 1950s
Font Notes:
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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. The font consists of a round, slightly tapering basin rained on a cylindrical stem with four creatures (human and animal) at 90-degree angles; square lower base; the sides of the basin have, top to bottom: single rope moulding, acanthus vine with palmette, double rope moulding, and a row of human heads occupies about half of the lower basin side, the other half is covered in pan-frieze pattern; on the four angles of the base are either an atlante holding the centre ring moulding, or a smirking chouchant-regardant lion. There is no font cover but the font has a large copper insert used for baptisms now. The entry for Götterswickerhamm in Ad Tiliam [http://adtiliam.blogspot.com/2019/07/gotterwickerhamm-st-nikomedes.html] [accessed 3 October 2023] reports that its font is similar to the one at nearby Borken ["Im nicht allzu weit entfernten Borken steht ein ganz ähnliches Exemplar"]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.844222, 6.859944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 39.2″ N, 6° 51′ 35.8″ E
UTM: 32U 352583 5745878
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: Unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002