Hellefeld
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Results: 11 records
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
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]
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
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
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
LB01: inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]
R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
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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
view of font and cover
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
FontID: 08741HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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.
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; p. 344
Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885