Cologne No. 3 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vorhalle und Nordfassade St. Georg, Köln, Deutschland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2015 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Georg_Köln,_Nordseite-0576.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2019]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Walker in Walker (1883)
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Holly Hayes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09324COL
Church/Chapel: St. Georgs Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Georgsplatz 17, Köln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 8888130
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located on Georgsplatz 17, off (E) the Blaubach, S of the Innenstadt, W of the river
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font is similar to the one at Cologne St. Ursula's [cf. Index entry for Cologne No. 11]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Holly Hayes, of www.sacred-destinations.com, for her photograph of this font
Lübke (1870) describes this as an example of simple Romanesque fonts. Described and illustrated in Walker (1883): "a fine twelfth century font of grey grit stone [...] The basin is decorated with a blind arcade with shafts caps, bases, and circular arches slightly relieved; the bases have spurs of the earliest type; the lowest member of the base is octagonal." [NB: there is no octagonal part now; the lower part of the base is round]. Ligtenberg (1915: 162) mentions some comparable barrel- or cylindrical-shaped fonts at Eenrum, Kirchhilpe [i.e., Kirchilpe], Seligenthal, Schwarzrheindorf, St-Georg Kirche in Cologne. Illustrated in Pudelko 1932). Described in Davies (1962) as an arcading motif "without figures on the tub-font of St. George's, Cologne". Illustrated in Hayes [www.sacred-destinations.com]. The deeply-carved arcading occupies most of the tub-font sides, below a rim moulding; the lower base is round and a few inches wider than the basin itself. The font cover is flat and round, with a dove with open wings finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.932103,
6.956289
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 55′ 55.57″ N,
6° 57′ 22.64″ E
UTM: 32U 356391 5644263
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 105 cm* [presumed max. width]
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/ inches in Walker (1883)]
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; r["References"]
Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870
Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; r["References"]
