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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - arum?
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: curled leaves (?) decorate the arches
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: in each of the spandrel ot the arcade
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design element - architectural - capital
Scene Description: moulded capitals on the colonnettes of the arcade
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13319HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Drake mantions the font at Eibergen as similar
Church / Chapel Name: St. Nikolaus Kirche, Holtwick
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: mid-13thC church; collapsed 1856; re-built 1857-1860
Church Address: Kirchpl. 14, Holtwick, 48720 Rosendahl, Germany
Site Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 474, 7 km N of Coesfeld, about 40 km NW of Münster
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Drake (2002) as a Wstphalian cylinder decorated with an upper foliate band. The cylindrical font has a blind arcade of round-headed arches with richly decorated capitals. Modern font cover of bronze.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian James, Asst. Librarian, Society of Antiquaries of London, for his help in documenting this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 371839 5763435
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.006753, 7.132782
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 24.31″ N, 7° 7′ 58.01″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1967
Material: metal, bronze
Notes: decorated with baptism scene and a pelican
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 81, 85, 178 and pl.167