Gross Giewitz / Gross Gievitz

Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002

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Results: 5 records

BH02: human figure - head - crowned

Scene Description: a king?

BH03: cleric? - bishop? - head

BH04: human figure - male - head - monk?

BH1: human figure - head - peasant?

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002

Image Source: Drake (2002: pl. 192)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09153GIE
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche in Gross Gievitz
Church Location: 33U 353212 5939047
Country Name: Germany
Location: Müritz, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located 8-10 km NNE of Waren, just N of the Torgelower See, in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Other "head" fonts
Described and illustrated in Drake (2002): Romanesque baptismal font made of Gotland limestone, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a round pedestal base of slightly splaying out sides. There are four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles of the basin sides and are described in Drake (ibid.) as: "They represent peasant, king, bishop dnk monk and below each chin is a short section of neck". The upper side of the basin is girdled by an iron reinforcement ring; the stem of the base has a roll moulding at each end. Described and illustrated by Lord [after Drake] in Diwylliant... (1998-2003). Described in the Wikipedia entry [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Gro%C3%9F_Gievitz] for this church: "Der älteste Kunstschatz der Kirche ist die historische Tauffünte, ein steinernes Taufbecken, das wohl älter als die Kirche ist und wohl schon in einem Vorgängerbauwerk oder an anderem Ort gestanden hat. Die Tauffünte zeigt vier männliche Masken, darunter eine mit Helm."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 34′ 46.94″ N, 53.579705, 12° 46′ 57.95″ E, 12.782763
UTM: 33U 352101 5937630

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (from Gotland)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

The Visual Culture of Wales = Diwylliant gweledol Cymru, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998-2003
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002