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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(15).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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design element - motifs - scotia

Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(15).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Koszalin, katedra Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 September 2015 by Aw58 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin,_katedra_Niepokalanego_Poczęcia_Najświętszej_Maryi_Panny.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Koszalin, kościół katedralny p.w. Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP, 1300-1333"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(02).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption; "Koszalin, Katedra p.w. Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP, 1300-1333"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(06).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ołtarze Katedry Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Koszalinie."

Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(18).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chrzcielnica w Katedrze Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Koszalinie."

Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2013 by Kapitel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koszalin_katedra_(15).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 13)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09139KOS

Church/Chapel: Katedra Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP / Katedra Koszalin [Cathedral of St. Mary]

Church Patron Saints: The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary

Church Location: Bolesława Chrobrego 7, 75-063 Koszalin, Poland -- Tel.: +48 511 020 207

Country Name: Poland

Location: West Pomeranian Voivodeship / Województwo zachodniopomorskie

Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of county roads 11 and 6, on the Slovincian coast, about 5 km S of the Baltic shore -- the cathedral is located in the old town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg

Historical Region: Koszalin / Pomerania

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Group 6) [Berggren]

Cognate Fonts: The basin at Bruges St-Giles, Belgium, for example

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: church ca. 1300-1333; became cathedral of the diocese in 1972

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the "Paradise" font ["Paradisfunt"] type. Illustrated in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 13): polygonal basin with rounded underbowl decorated with a scotia at the upper basin side, and a blind arcade of trefoiled arches all around the sides and underbowl; the base consists of an upper cylindrical portion raised on a round splaying out lower volume, both plain. Berggren (ibid.) points out its similarity with the basin at the church of St-Giles, Bruges, in Belgium.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.18952, 16.180399

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 11′ 22.27″ N, 16° 10′ 49.43″ E

UTM: 33U 577021 6005252

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [from Gotland]

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

Drainage Notes: metal basin insert

REFERENCES

Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002