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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Scene Description: Gabriel's right arm is broken off; his left arm holds a inscribed scroll down his robe

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - 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 dove in the left spandrel surely the Holy Ghost, whereas the one on the right resembles a harpy

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: scene spread over two arches

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

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: the Adoration secene is spread over four arches: the three Kings occupy a round arch each, two standing, one kneeling next to the enthroned Madonna and Child, who occupy the only trefoil-headed arch of the arcade by themselves

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: Caspar, standing, crowned, crowned, occupies the left-most arch of the scene; to his right, Melchior, also standing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Scene Description: a number of them, looking rather benevolent, in some of the spandrels of the arcade -- this one is located in the right spandrel above the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: the arcade has eight arches, seven of them are round-headed, while one, containing the Madonna and Child, is trefoil-headed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - inhabited - animal - fabulous animal or monster - fruit

Scene Description: this is the area above the arch containing the Madonna and Child, part of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: Museum label for this font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: on the arches of the arcade [cf. FontNotes] -- this one shows the trefoiled arch-head above Madonna and Child: "SANCTA MARIA IHC XRC"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing some of the worst damage on the font: the area showing how the stone broke at one of the metal staples of the old cover, a common occurrence in medieval baptismal fonts. Notice also the plaster filling to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: [NB: unfortunately the position of the font in the display case does not permit to see if there is a drain hole in the centre of the basin interior]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the cuts, repairs, old cover staples, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2010 by Gregor Helms [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KircheNesse.JPG] [accessed 7 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchNesse.jpg] [accessed 7 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: showing the Anunciation scene (Gabriel and Mary in separate arches) -- the angel in the right arch is part of Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing the full scene of the Baptism of Christ (left and centre arches), and, in the right arch, Caspar, the last of the three Magi of the Adoration scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: [NB: true replica of the medieval font? cf. FontyNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Die St. Marien-Kirchengemeinde Nesse [www.kirche-nesse.de]

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view of font

Scene Description: Patrick Hartwig at work on the replica of the original font here; the first person to be baptised in the replica font was the artist's daughter -- the original is now in the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden

Image Source: digital photograph in NATURSTEINBETRIEB KRAUSE GMBH [www.naturstein-krause.de/indexrest.php?action=steinbild&p=4] [accessed 7 September 2014]

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 11544NES

Museum and Inventory Number: Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, Brückstraße 1 | 26725 Emden, Germany

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Marien-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Nordbuscher Weg 34, 26553 Dornumerland (Nesse) -- Tel.: +49 33 91 40 53

Country Name: Germany

Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located in East Frisia, not far from Stedesdorf (with a cognate font), in the municipality of Dornum

Historical Region: Ostfriesland / East Frisia

Font Location in Church: in a museum [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century (mid-to-late), Early Gothic

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church built mid-late 12thC; expanded and renovated in the 15thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Kroesen & Steensma (2004) as a baptismal font of the mid to late thirteenth century made of Baumberg sandstone: like the font in neighbouring Stedesdorf this font "has one figure in each niche, but here the eight figures are more mobile and form part of three stories: the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi and the Baptism of Christ. The niches here are part of an arcade with worked capitals on the little columns. Both fonts have a frieze of vines and fabulous animals at the top. The original pedestal of both fonts have been lost." Die St. Marien-Kirchengemeinde Nesse web site [www.kirche-nesse.de] illustrates a true replica of the 13th-century font ["eine originalgetreue Kopie unserer Sandsteintaufe aus dem 12. Jhd'], in which the front arch shows a Baptism of Christ in the Jordan scene under a round arch. On-site notes: the arcade of eight arches includes seven that are round-headed, and one that is trefoil-headed; interestingly the trefoiled arch is occupied by the Madonna and Child, part of the Adoration of the Magi scene; the Baptism of Christ, on the other hand, as well as the Annunciation, is housed under round arches; the baptismal font is now [August 2014] on permanent display at the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden; a replica of the original is located in the parish church. There is no font cover in the museum, but the font has several marks that evidence the use of a cover on it previously.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.654056, 7.380722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 14.6″ N, 7° 22′ 50.6″ E

UTM: 32U 392983 5946251

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Baumberg sandstone)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [unable to view inside of the basin]

Basin Total Height: 85 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: the font is in a case; access to to the interior for measurements, etc., was not available at the time]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the arch-heads above the figures/scenes

Inscription Text: 1) "S GABRIEL - TR[?]BA" / "SCA MARIA" / "[...]" / "ANGELVS" / "SPC SCS IHC JOHANNES" / "GASPAR FERT AVRVM " / "THVS MELCHIOR" / "TRADET MIRRAM" / "SANCTA MARIA IHC XRC" 2) [see alternate and more accurate transcription in Schlegel (p. 461)]

Inscription Source: 1) on-site inspection 2) see alternate transcription in Schlegel (p. 461)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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