Kempen

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchbauverein Kempen [https://kirchbauverein-kempen.de/unsere-kirche/albiez-orgel-2] [accessed 1 January 2023]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing each other - bicorporate

Scene Description: the lion bodied are not set at an angle, as usual, but are flat on the rounded surface

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchbauverein Kempen [https://kirchbauverein-kempen.de/unsere-kirche/albiez-orgel-2] [accessed 1 January 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: pronounced mouldings on this later base

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchbauverein Kempen [https://kirchbauverein-kempen.de/unsere-kirche/albiez-orgel-2] [accessed 1 January 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kempen (Niederrhein), Propsteikirche"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2021 by O.Falkner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kempen,_Propsteikirche_2021.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2023]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchbauverein Kempen [https://kirchbauverein-kempen.de/unsere-kirche/albiez-orgel-2] [accessed 1 January 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10816KEM

Church/Chapel: Katholische Propsteikirche St. Mariä Geburt in Kempen / Marienkirche in Kempen

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: An St. Marien, 47906 Kempen, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the 509 ringroad, about 30 km NW of Düsseldorf, towards the Belgian border

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type?

Church Notes: church ca. 1200; modified 14th, 15thC; restored 19thC; damaged WWII; restored 1990s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of a round basin decorated with heads and mythical creatures; made of Namur blue limestone ca. 1200; the later octagonalto-square base is late-Gothic. Described and illustrated in Drake (2002): the font at Kempen "was originally set upon five cylindrical supports, although the present single shaft, probably of the thirteenth century, is square, with integral octagonal base." The basin is round with tapering sides that are decorated with pairs of facing lion bodies that share the head, and there are human (?) heads at 90-degree angles, though they are rather flat and less protruding than on most Mosan fonts. As indicated in Drake (ibid.) the base is of a later date; it is octagonal-to-square and decorated with pronounced mouldings. Noted and illustrated in the Kirchbauverein Kempen [https://kirchbauverein-kempen.de/unsere-kirche/albiez-orgel-2] [accessed 1 January 2023] as a font of the 13th century: "Das älteste Kunstwerk in der Propsteikirche ist das Taufbecken aus dem 13. Jahrhundert, das einzig erhaltene Zeugnis des frühen Gotteshauses im romanischen Stil. In einfachen Bildern wird gezeigt, worum es bei der Taufe geht: Der Drache (Satan) und der Löwe (Christus) kämpfen um den Menschen. Christus ist der Sieger und wir mit ihm."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.364045, 6.419064

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 50.56″ N, 6° 25′ 8.63″ E

UTM: 32U 320331 5693471

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with decorated top; inged in the middle; modern

REFERENCES

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