Hellefeld
Results: 11 records
B01: human figure - head
![in the front arch; note the rune (?) engraved above it [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: in the front arch; note the rune (?) engraved above it [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedhelm Ackermann, [2004?]
Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: the arch itself is done in rope motif, wheras the capitals columns and bases are decorated with patterns of tiny holes or incisions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedhelm Ackermann, [2004?]
Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
BS01: human figure - head
Scene Description: tiny heads in the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedhelm Ackermann, [2004?]
Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfgang Poguntke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Hellefeld.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedhelm Ackermann, [2004?]
Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08741HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late) (basin only) [composite font], Medieval [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St.-Martinus in Sundern-Hellefeld
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Hekllefeld, 59846 Sundern, Germany
Site Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L839, 7 km ENE of Sundern, 8-9 km S of Arnsberg
Additional Comments: altered font (on a modern stone base)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Drake (2002) [after K. Lutze]; also in Drake (2003): lead baptismal font of the late 12th century. Described, with photographs by Friedhelm Ackermann, in Reissland [www.sauerland-heimatbund.de/weihekreuze_und_runen.html]; Reissland (ibid.) identifies the cryptic markings on its side as variant forms of two runes. The bucked-shaped basin is decorated with a rope motif around the upper rim and the lower end, and the arches of the arcade are done in rope motif as well; these arches are round, with simple capitals and bases; in the spandrels of the arcade are human heads, and one -at least- human head appears under in of the arches. The base, a cylindrical pedestal with thick mouldings at the top and bottom, is made of stone and much later in date, probably 1889. the date indicated by the inscription that appears on it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 436486 5687051
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3312, 8.08833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 52.32″ N, 8° 5′ 17.99″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead (basin only)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the modern base
Inscription Text: "'Hellef. Taufe' aus d. [...] / [...] renov. 1889. Dr. Freisen"
Inscription Notes: cf. FontNotes
Inscription Source: cf. Image area
LID INFORMATION
Notes: cf. Image area
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, "Romanesque Fonts in Kent: the French Connections", CXXIII, 2003, Archaeologia Cantiana, 2003, pp. 333-352; p. 344
- Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885, p. 86, 174 and pl. 383