Sillenstede

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Scene Description: the short young man with the lance [Longinus?] belongs to the next scene, the Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Scene Description: the dove from the Baptism of Christ has been incorporated into the upper inscription band

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Scene Description: the attending angel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes - dove - detail

Scene Description: John's hand on Christ's head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - patterns - crenellated

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - patterns - floral

four-petalled flowers in quadrangular frames; it serves as background to all the areas of the basin sides not covered by the figural carvings

Scene Description: four-petalled flowers in quadrangular frames; it serves as background to all the areas of the basin sides not covered by the figural carvings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: posted outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: the date the font was re-carved? next to the dove that tops the scene of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and Inscription area]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and Inscription area]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of canopy - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: The bell tower is detached and a distance from the church building.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2008 by Gouwenaar [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_Florianuskerk_Sillenstede2.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - nothwest view

the northwest side of the detached bell tower, in the context of the churchyard; the church building, not visible here, is quite a distance away, to the left of it

Scene Description: the northwest side of the detached bell tower, in the context of the churchyard; the church building, not visible here, is quite a distance away, to the left of it

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: 1657

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: early-16th retable with two hinged wings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: north wing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: south wing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: centre piece

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font - east side

[NB: orientation is approximate] showin a part of the Adoration of the Magi scene and, to the right, the angel holding clothes from the Baptism of Christ scene

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate] showin a part of the Adoration of the Magi scene and, to the right, the angel holding clothes from the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - southeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - southwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 11542SIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: St.-Florian-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Florentius? Florentinus?

Country Name: Germany

Location: Friesland, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Schortens, near Wilhelmshaven and Jever, in Friesland/Frisia

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, S side

Date: ca. 1250?

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the anonymous and persistent Sillensteder who went through lengthy and complicated undertakings to make possible our access to this church and font. Vielen Dank!

Church Notes: church completed in 1233 but may have started in the 12thC;

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Kroesen & Steensma (2004) as a baptismal font "from the third quarter of the thirteenth century [...]. The font in Sillenstede has a number of wonderful reliefs: the Adoration of the Virgin and Child by the Magi, the Baptism of Christ [...], the Crucifixion and the Descent into Hell. The background between the representations consists of a pattern of lozenges with a four-petalled flower. The original frieze was replaced in 1584 with an inscription [...] In the Sillenstede crucifixion the figures are in control of themselves on either side of the cross [...]; in the Descent into Hell [...] a quiet standing Christ is pulling Adam up out of a small maw of Hell". The web site of the Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Sillenstede [www.ev-kirche-sillenstede.de] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made of Baumberg sandstone dated to ca, 1250. On-site notes: The font is roughly cylindrical in shape with very pronounced high-relief sculptured sides, some of which is a later re-carving and re-tooling. The font is now mounted on a wooden cross-shaped plinth. The date 1645 appears on the inscription painted on the three-column canopy, and is likely its date on which it was built and added to the font. The font exterior is suspiciously neat and sharp, but the lead lining of the basin appears very old. The upper and lower inscriptions were added in 1584, quite likely the date when the font was 'spruced up'. The four scenes are as described above; in the Crucifixion scene a young man holds what appears to the traditional sponge on a reed, although the youth is not dressed as a soldier; on the other side of the cross, John holds a book in his left hand.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.574158, 7.987637

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 34′ 26.97″ N, 7° 59′ 15.49″ E

UTM: 32U 432966 5936621

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [Baumberg sandstone]

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin and Frisian dialect

Inscription Notes: inscription added in 1584 [partial transcription only]

Inscription Location: around the upper and lower basin sides

Inscription Text: upper side: "ELD[...]N - IEVERAE -1584 BAPTIZATE: IN NO[m]I[n]E PATRIS, ET FILII, ET SP[irit]V[s] S[anctus]: IO[h]A[nn]ES CO: ET DEL: D[?]N: IEVERAE / A[nn]O 1584" lower chamfer: "DVDDE-KLENEN-VA GET / [?] D: EILHARD[?] ROVER PASTOR-TIARC POPKE[?]-ET- / TIDKE HARNE[?]S, AEDIT [???] HOC SAXV REPARAR I CVRARV[n]T"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and Image area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1645

Notes: canopy on three columns; inscription with date 1645

REFERENCES

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004