Kalkar / Calcar
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
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Results: 12 records
design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: resembling a fluted pattern but with tiny trefoiled arch-heads atop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 July 2016]
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: below the mouldings; much damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 July 2016]
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: much damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 July 2016]
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: a band of (cusped quatrefoils, Ogee circles, etc.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: some are window traceries
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © AlterVista, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2005 by AlterVista [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalkar_Nicolai.JPG] [accessed 22 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2012 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalkar,_St_Nikolai_002.JPG] [accessed 22 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalkar_-_Sankt_Nicolai_02_ies.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Scene Description: with several of the famous retables in the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2008 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalkar_-_Sankt_Nicolai_04_ies.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2016]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 July 2016]
INFORMATION
FontID: 11453KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sankt Nicolai katholische Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Jan-Joest-Straße 6, 47546 Kalkar, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2824 976510
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordhein-Westfalen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church ca. 1230; damaged by fire 1409; re-built 15thC; restored 19th-20thC; heavily damaged in WWII; restored
Font Notes:
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Stone baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl raised on an octagonal pedestal and lower base of the same shape; the rim of the basin is decorated with a torus-scotia-torus comnbination and there is a foliage motif all around below, but much of it is damaged now; below thr rima and all around the side is a narrow band with a variety of Gothic motifs, each of the eight sides containing three repeated motifs (cusped quatrefoils, square flowers, etc.); the underbowl has tracery patterns all around, each side a different one; the octagonal pedestal base appears to be fluted but there is a tiny trefoiled arch-head atop each flute; the moulded lower base has two volumes; the basin has a metal liner or insert which is probably a baptismal dish, as is common use in Northern churches. The font cover is dome and has a Latin cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.738056, 6.291944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 17″ N, 6° 17′ 31″ E
UTM: 32U 313024 5735375
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal lining or insert
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]