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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12331PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / müschelcuppa variant
Cognate Fonts: another such basin [but with sixteen sides] at Kaarma, on the island of Saaremaa
Church / Chapel Name: Pärnu Nikolai Kirik [demolished in 1954]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: 13th-14thC pilgimage church; re-bilt ca. 1600; much damaged 1940s and 1950s; demolished 1954
Church Address: Nikolai tänav, Pärnu, Estonia
Site Location: Pärnumaa, Estonia, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the S bank of the Pärnu river, across the brige from road 60, W of highway 4, 100+ km S of Tallinn -- the ruins of the church are located near the Pärnu town hall, on the corner of Pikk and Nikolai streets
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tuulse (1949): limestone baptismal font with a basin of a variant type he describes as 'polygonalen Müschelcuppen'; the top of the basin is dodecagonal, the sides decorated with twelve broad ribs thar continue on the rounded underbowl; there is a scotia under the upper rim of the basin, followed down by two thing mouldings; the basin is raised on a splaying round pedestal base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 35V 353824 6474384
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.385833, 24.499722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 23′ 9″ N, 24° 29′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: dodecagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
REFERENCES
- Tuulse, Armin, "Mittlealterliche Taufsteine in Estland", Apophoreta tartuensia: acta universitati tartuensi (dorpatensi) ad diem restitutionis kal. dec. MCMXIX nunc tricesimum celebrandum a professoribus discipulisque eorum in exilio dedicata = Pühendusteos: Eesti Vabriigi Tartu Ülikoolile tema avamise [...], Holmiae = Stockholm: Societas Litterarum Estonica in Svecia = Eesti Teaduslik Selts Rootsis, 1949, p. 156 and Add. 4