Munster nr. Dortmund No. 1 / Münster

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - Holy Ghots above - scroll with inscription - angel holding clothes

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

BU02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with scroll - inscribed scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

BU03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with scroll - inscribed scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

BU04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with scroll - inscribed scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

BU05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll - inscribed scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

Christ - holding book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction - St. Peter - St. Paul - Apostles

the band below the upper rim has trefoiled frames inside pointed arch-heads; in the central one, right above the Baprtism of Christ scene, is Christ, wearing a cruciferous nimbus, right hand raised in benediction, left hand holding an open book; in the left arch-head is St. Peter holding a key and a closed booky; in the right arch-head is St. Paul holding a sword and a closed book

Scene Description: the band below the upper rim has trefoiled frames inside pointed arch-heads; in the central one, right above the Baprtism of Christ scene, is Christ, wearing a cruciferous nimbus, right hand raised in benediction, left hand holding an open book; in the left arch-head is St. Peter holding a key and a closed booky; in the right arch-head is St. Paul holding a sword and a closed book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

angel - holding scroll - inscribed scroll

Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels in the underbowl panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2

Scene Description: a pair of tiny dragons in the two upper spandrels of the trefoil above the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four; this one appears to be original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four; this appears to be a later replacement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four; this one appears to be an original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant

Scene Description: one of four; this appears to be a later replacement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - trefoiled

Scene Description: containing busts of Christ and the Apostles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arch-heads that conatin busts of Christ and the Apostles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - tracery - varied

Scene Description: open-work tracery with quatrefoils, windows, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - trefoil - in a circle - 5

Scene Description: housing the Baptism of Christ scene and the symbols of the four Evangelists

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin and cover - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: the south side of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: the three-bodied volume is the 'Paradies', or narthex, part of the west transept

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: the east transept, south side [NB: there is a also west transept or 'Paradies' in this cathedral]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - choir

Scene Description: the 'Alte Chor' with its Baroque retable; it is now located at the west end of the church; the baptismal font is just east of it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east - detail

Scene Description: with a partial view of the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing Matthew's angel on the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - east and northeast sides

Scene Description: showing the Baptism of Christ in the left roundel, Mark's lion in the right roundel -- orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - east and southeast sides

Scene Description: showing Matthew's angel partially in the left roundel of the underbowl, the Baptism of Christ in the right roundel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - north side

Scene Description: with John's eagle and Matthew's angel showing on the underbowl -- orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Scene Description: showing Mark;s lion in the centre roundel -- orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Scene Description: showing Luke's ox in the centre roundel -- orientation is approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02889MUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Münster Dom / St. Paulus Dom

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Church Location: Domplatz 28, 48143 Münster, Germany -- Tel.: +49 251 4956700

Country Name: Germany

Location: Münsterland, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Münster is about 40 km NNE of Dortmund on the E37; the cathedral is located in the town centre, just SE of the river, on the Horsteberg, in the Domplatz

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W choir

Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Didron (1859) as a bronze font of the 14th century in the west choir. Listed by Enlart (1902) among a group of metal fonts on stone bases [NB: the base of this font is of metal; only the modern plinth is made of stone]. On-site notes: chalice-shaped baptismal font made of bronze; the basin is roughly hemispherical, with large trefoile-in-a-circle medallion-like panels inscribing the symbols of the four Evangelists and the Baptism of Christ around the underbowl; in the spandrels, full angel figures holding scrolls; there are inscriptions on the many scrolls held by angels, Evangelists' symbols) above these, framed by thin mouldings is a set of arch-heads (pointed outside, trefoiled inside) containg busts of Christ and the Apostles, each identified by his own symbol; foliage motifs in the spandrels of this arcade; the stem of the base, with a large ring moulding, is decorated with tracery patterns of through-work; the lower base splays forming a trefoil arcade with sedente lions at the angles supporting the structure; the metal base appears original but some (two?) of the lions are modern replacements. The font appears to have retained its original cover, round and flat, and locking mechanism; it appears to be either jammed or fixed on purpose so there was no access to the interior during our visit.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.963056, 7.625556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 47″ N, 7° 37′ 32″ E

UTM: 32U 405568 5757821

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm

Basin Total Height: 44 cm

Height of Base: 70 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 114 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: most scrolls are inscribed; some illegible now

Inscription Location: on the scrolls, including the one above the Baptism of Christ scene

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th-century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, Cathédrales gothiques, Lille, Paris, Lyon, [etc.]: Société Saint-Augustin -- Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie., 1914

Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; p. 175

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902