Lihula / Leal

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12339LIH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Lihulan Elisabetin kirkko / Eliisabeti Kirik [permanently closed]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Elizabeth
Church Notes: church ca. 1230s; destroyed 1297 in Livonian wars; re-built thereafter; replaced by new church in 1878
Church Address: Tallinna mnt 11, Lihula, 90303 Pärnu maakond, Estonia -- Tel.: +372 5691 5347
Site Location: Läänemaa, Estonia, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 16193; ENE of Hanila, in the W area of the mainland
Font Notes:
Noted in Tuulse (1949)

COORDINATES

UTM: 34V 664390 6509138
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.691129, 23.836512
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 41′ 28.06″ N, 23° 50′ 11.44″ E

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. 161