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B01: coat of arms

several, unidentified; they are shallow incisions of a date later than the bowl itself, and the incisions now traced in gold
Scene Description: several, unidentified; they are shallow incisions of a date later than the bowl itself, and the incisions now traced in gold

INFORMATION

FontID: 06421KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Dionysius
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Dennis, Dionis, Dionysius]
Country Name: Germany
Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located in the NE area of the Stadtgebiet
Font Location in Church: In the centre nave, by the S pillar of the chancel arch
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Bolege-Vieweg (1998: 188, 189) as a tub-shaped Romanesque baptismal font. It is wider at the upper rim and now mounted on four (?) short blocks. The sides of the basin are ornamented with incised shields bearing coat-of-arms, added at a later date; the incised lines are now done in bright gold paint or guilded. Other than this later addition, the basin is plain but for a broad but flat torus around the upper rim side. Like some of the fonts in the area, this one has been fitted with a grid-like cover of cast-iron (?).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Bolege-Vieweg, Dore, Dortmunder Dorfkirchen: Schätze mittelalterlicher Kunst, Dortmund: Ruhfus, 1998