Hellefeld

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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

Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - rope motif

Scene Description: the arches are made of rope motif

B01: human figure - head

Scene Description: in the front arch; note the rune (?) engraved above it [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])

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B02: human figure - head

Scene Description: in at least one of the arches

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

BS01: human figure - head

Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels of the arcade

BS01: human figure - head

Scene Description: tiny heads in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])

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LB01: inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfgang Poguntke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Hellefeld.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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Image Source: photograph by Friedhelm Ackermann in Reissland ([2004?])

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08741HEL

Church/Chapel: St.-Martinus Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: Germany

Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located ENE of Sundern (dir. Meschede)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (late) (basin only) [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

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 Notes: cf. FontNotes

Inscription Location: on the modern base

Inscription Text: "'Hellef. Taufe' aus d. [...] / [...] renov. 1889. Dr. Freisen"

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; r["References"]

Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885