Kirchhorde / Kirchhörde nr. Dortmund

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06418KIR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: 1540

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Renaissance

Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Kirche St.-Patroklus

Font Location in Church: In the NE side, to the left of the altar

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Patroclus of Troyes

Church Notes: 10thC church

Church Address: Patroklusweg 19, 44229 Dortmund, Germany -- Tel.: +49 231 736464

Site Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the L684, 6 km S of Dortmund city centre, just NW of Syburg, also with a font listed in this Index

Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Paderborn

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 10thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Bolege-Vieweg (1998: 58-59) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font dated by an inscription to 1540. The basin has a plain protruding upper rim; the upper basin sides are ornamented with a continuous arcade of round arches that rest on three-leaf motifs; this same arcade design is replicated on the lower basin side, but reversed, i.e., upside-down; between the two, and inscription runs on three sides of the basin [cf. Inscription area]. The undebowl is rounded and plain. The stem of the base and the lower base are octagonal and plain. The font has a modern metal (brass?) mid-dome cover topped with an angel figure; it bears and inscription.
Illustrated in a B&W photograph from the Die Bau und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Taufstein_der_Patrokliskirche_in_Kirchhörde_aus_dem_Jahre_1540_um_1890.jpg] [acessed 11 May 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 393039 5701460

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.4542, 7.46056

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 27′ 15.12″ N, 7° 27′ 38.02″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Notes on Measurements: *NB: this is given in the source [Bolege-Vieweg (1998: 58-59)] as "oberer Durchmesser" but it appears to refer to the measurement of the outer octagon, rather than the inner basin rim

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on the basin sides

Inscription Text: "ANNO 1540 15 MAJI"

Inscription Notes: the inscription runs along three of the basin sides

Inscription Source: Bolege-Vieweg (1998: 58-59)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

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