Pilsum
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles, supporting the basin; the figures have the heads of their symbols (e.g., John has an eagle head)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: in some of te arches of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist
angel - holding musical instrument
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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human figure - head - 2
Scene Description: at opposite ends on the rim [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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inscription
Scene Description: in the halo of each Evangelist
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Südseite der Pilsumer Kreuzkirche St. Stephanus (Pilsum, Krummhörn, Landkreis Aurich, Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen) mit dem davor liegendem Friedhof, fotografiert in einem hochauflösendem Panorama."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carschten, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2010 by Carschten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilsumer_Kirche_2010.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dickelbers, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 October 2012 by Dickelbers [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilsum_(7).JPG] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu161.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu170.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matthias Süßen, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 April 2010 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzkirche_Pilsum_msu168.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10843PIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-reformierte Pilsumer Kreuzkirche [formerly St.-Stephanus-Kirche]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross [earlier dedicated to St. Stephen]
Church Location: 53° 28′ 58.9″ N, 7° 3′ 46.3″ E
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located in the N of the Krummhörn area, about 20 km NW of Emden
Historical Region: Ostfriesland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, S side
Date: 1469
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Heinrich Klinghe [aka Hinrik Klinghe] workshop, Bremen
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Uttum was also cast by Heinrich Klinghe
Church Notes: church oldest part is mid-13thC; restored late-20thC
Font Notes:
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Described in Kroesen and Steensma (2004) as a good example of a 15th-century bronze font from the workshp of the bell-casting Klinghe family of Bremen: "Heinrich [Klinghe, son of Ghert Klinghe] cast the East Frisian fonts in Pilsum from 1469 which rests on the four evangelists, and that in Uttum from 1474, which depicts the Baptism in the Jordan". The bronze font consists of a roughly bucket-shaped basin akin to an inverted bell with the top cut off, raised on a four standing figures, the four Evangelists, with the peculiarity that each head of the figures incorporates the symbol of the corresponding Evangelist (e.g., John has a human figure but the head of an eagle); there is an arcade all around that includes a Crucifixion scene with Mary and John, as well as apostles, saints and musical angels; there is an inscription around the upper rim in which the date and the name of the artist are included; also part of the upper rim are two protruding human heads at opposite ends, both facing outwards and drilled with a large hole, obviously the anchoring points for the locking mechanism of the original cover, but there is no cover present now.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.483028, 7.062861
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 28′ 58.9″ N, 7° 3′ 46.3″ E
UTM: 32U 371461 5927752
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: 1.- around the upper rim side / 2.- inside the halo corresponding to each figure]
Inscription Text: 1.- [transcription not available -- includes the date and the name of the artist]
2.- [transcription not available -- each of the four figures has his name in the halo]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004