Keitum / Kairem / Keitum auf Sylt / Kejtum / Keltum

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Scene Description: very eroded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2008 by Uwe Barghaan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keitum_Kirche_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2014]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: ca. 1900

Image Source: postcard; W. Monck, Westerland a. Sylt; Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sylt_Postkarte_008.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2006 by Holger Weinandt [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Severinskirche_Keitum.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [east] end, left [north] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by JD [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hauptschiff,_St._Severin,_Sylt.JPD] [accessed 6 July 2014]

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view of church interior - retable

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in Haupt (1887: 428, fig. 652)

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02579KEI

Church/Chapel: Evangelish-lutherische Dorfkirche St.-Severin / Severinskirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Severin [aka Seurin, Severinus of Noricum]

Church Location: Munkmarscher Chaussee, 25980 Sylt-Ost, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Keitum is on the island of Sylt, in the extreme NW corner of the Schleswig-Holstein National Park, 3 kms ESE of Westerland. Sylt is connected to the mainland via the Autotransport Westerland-Niebull which runs atop the Hindenburgdamm, right at the Danish border.

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Augsburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Date: 1230?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church here first documented in 1240, but could be as early as 1216; tower is ca. 1450 and was used as navigation beacon;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Haupt (1887) as a font made of "roter rheinischer Sandstein", topped with a bronze cover. Sauermann (1904) states that the font is made of two pieces [cf. infra]. Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). Drake (2002) classes this font as Bentheim School, Hage. a. Type I (with fonts at Berum, Forlitz-Blaukirchen, Hage, Kappeln, Keitum, Ohne, Roden, Westochtersum and Wesuwe); Drake (ibid.) further notes that although Sauermann [cf. supra] describes this font as being of two parts, "None of the Bentheim fonts which I have examined personally were other than monolithic". Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with [top down] a double rope moulding or braid, a vine, another double rope moulding or vine and a band of fan-frieze; raised on a round-to-square pedestal base with a roll moulding atop, and four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. The base retains old paint in it but the basin appears to have cleaned up. No cover present but a metal baptismal dish is now in use.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.901944, 8.363889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 54′ 7″ N, 8° 21′ 50″ E

UTM: 32U 459210 6084065

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Haupt, Richard, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein mit Ausnahme des Kreises Herzogtum Lauenburg 2, Kiel: Ernst Homann, 1888

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; r["References"]

Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904