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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail
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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child
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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
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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
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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
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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
![the short young man with the lance [Longinus?] belongs to the next scene, the Crucifixion](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140911111_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the short young man with the lance [Longinus?] belongs to the next scene, the Crucifixion
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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
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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
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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
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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail
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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail
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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton? - detail
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140911113_compressed.png)
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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist holding a book - Stephaton?
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B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail
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B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail
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B04: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell
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view of font - east side
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
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - southeast side
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - southwest side
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - north side
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy - northeast side
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and Inscription area]
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design element - patterns - floral
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
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and Inscription area]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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inscription
Scene Description: the date the font was re-carved? next to the dove that tops the scene of the Baptism of Christ
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tombstone
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view of church exterior - tower - nothwest view
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 - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: The bell tower is detached and a distance from the church building.
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2008 by Gouwenaar [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_Florianuskerk_Sillenstede2.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2014]
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view of church interior - north wall - detail
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view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail
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view of church interior - statue
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view of church interior - monument
Scene Description: 1657
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view of church interior - retable - detail
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view of church interior - retable - detail
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view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: centre piece
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view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: south wing
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view of church interior - retable - detail
Scene Description: north wing
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: early-16th retable with two hinged wings
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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view of canopy - detail
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information
Scene Description: posted outside the church
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11542SIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2014-08-05
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: St.-Florian-Kirche Sillenstede
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Florentius? Florentinus?
Church Notes: church completed in 1233 but may have started in the 12thC;
Church Address: Mühlenstraße 2, 26419 Schortens, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4423 991630
Site Location: Friesland, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located E of road 210, in the municipality and 6-7 km NE of Schortens, about 10 km NW of Wilhelmshaven
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen
Additional Comments: altered font (partially re-carved - the upper basin side frieze replaced by an inscription in 1584 [cf. FontNotes]) -- painted font (traces of paint (e.g., on John's face, Crucifixion scene))
Font Notes:
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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.
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!
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 432966 5936621
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.574158, 7.987637
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 34′ 26.97″ N, 7° 59′ 15.49″ E
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 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 Notes: inscription added in 1584 [partial transcription only]
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, p. 346-348 and figs. 15-52, 15-54, 15-56