Ostermarie / Østermarie / Oestermarie

INFORMATION

FontID: 09016OST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Østermarie Kirke
Church Location: Svanekevej 6, 3751 Østermarie, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 56 47 00 69
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Hovedstaden, Sjælland
Directions to Site: Located near the E coast of the island, about 25 km E of Rønne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Rønne and Pedersker
Font Notes:
Described in Heales (1889: 39) as a baptismal font of approximately the same period and style as those at Rønne and Pedersker [cf. Index entries under these names], also on the island of Bornholm. The period would be "Decorated" [i.e., Gothic] and the dating in the late 13th to early 15th century. The shape of the font is stated in Heales (ibid.) as "quite of the hock-glass form".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.1383, 15.016097
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 8′ 17.88″ N, 15° 0′ 57.95″ E
UTM: 33U 501026 6110182

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Heales, Alfred, The Ecclesiology of Gotland, Other than Wisby ; and the Churches of Bornholm, London: Printed in Roworth & Co., Newton Street, High Holborn, 1889