Elmpt

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in [https://sankt-laurentius-elmpt.de/leben-im-glauben/taufe/] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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design element - motifs - stop - 4

Image Source: digital photograph in [https://sankt-laurentius-elmpt.de/leben-im-glauben/taufe/] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Denkmal Nr. 18 in Niederkrüchten-Elmpt"

Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2009 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18_Kath._Pfarrkirche,_Laurentiusstraße_17_(Elmpt).jpg] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche und Rathaus in Elmpt."

Image Source: digital photograph 23 May 2007 by Benutzer:Ichmichi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pano_elmpt_kircherathaus.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of font - west side

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Image Source: digital photograph in [https://sankt-laurentius-elmpt.de/leben-im-glauben/taufe/] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in limburg-bernd.de [http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen im Kreis Viersen/Kirchen Niederkrue/Elmpt, St. Laurentius.htm] [accessed 31 October 2021]

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Scene Description: a fragment built into an outer wasll; said to be originally from a former baptismal font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10812ELM

Church/Chapel: Pfarkirche St. Laurentius

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Laurentiusstraße 13, Elmpt, 41372 Niederkrüchten, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2163 81289

Country Name: Germany

Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the A52, 2-3 km WNW of Niederkrüchten, about 50 km W of Düsseldorf

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen

Historical Region: Kreis Viersen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Church Notes: 15thC church; renovated 1878

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

In addition to a baptismal font of Mosan style nad Gothic period in this church, some sources mention a fragment of a former, fragment that was built into the corner of an outer church wall. Noted in Zimmermann (1950-1951) Romanische Taufsteine am Niederrhein, Annalen des Historischen vereins fur den Niederrhein, 1954, heft 155-156, p. 484, as a Tournai font: "Im Rheinland ist nur das Bruchstück einer Ecke zu nennen, das in der Kirche zu Elmpt (Erkelenz) eingemauert ist. Dargestellt ist ein Eckkopf, von dem nach beiden Seitenflächen Weinranken ausgehen. Die aus dem Bruchstück wiederherstellbare Grundform des Tisches weist ohne weiteres auf die Scheide-Gruppe, jedoch liegt vielleicht eine Mischform mit der Maas-Gruppe vor, da der Eckkopf, soweit ich sehe, sonst nicht vorkommt." Ghislain (1986) and Drake (2002) correct the former to a Mosan font with square basin. [NB: the fragment reported earlier appear to have been integrated or replaced with a later font here -- cf. ImagesArea]]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 301865 5677315

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: 3?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: two-step dome with large ball finial

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; r["References"]

Zimmermann, Walther, "Zur Grenze des niederrheinischen zum westfälischen Kunstraum (mit 11 Karten)", Bd. 15/16, Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, 1950-1951, pp. 480; r["References"]