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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbacher Münster St. Vitus"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CaS2000, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2014 by CaS2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münster_MG_vom_Abteigarten.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Северный Рейн-Вестфалия, Мёнхенгладбах - Базилика Святого Вита"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Островский Александр, Киев, 2012

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 May 2012 by Островский Александр, Киев [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munster_16_-_Basilika_St._Vitus.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbacher Münster: Kirchenraum und Chor"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CaS2000, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2014 by CaS2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münster_Langhaus_Blick_in_den_Chor_2014.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Münsterkirche St. Vitus in Mönchengladbach Mitte"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe und Bernd Limburg, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Käthe und Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG-Mitte,_Münsterkirche_St._Vitus_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl-Heinz Schumacher, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Karl-Heinz Schumacher [http://www.baukunst-nrw.de/index.php?oid=756] [accessed 13 June 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13546MON
Church/Chapel: Katholische Mönchengladbacher Münster St. Vitus [Benedictine abbey]
Church Patron Saints: St. Vitus
Church Location: Abteistraße 41, 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd230, just W of Dusseldorf, towards the Dutch border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: monastery founded late-10thC;
Noted in Karl-Heinz Schumacher: Das Münster St. Vitus in Mönchengladbach. Erschienen in: Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 544, Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Köln 2013, S. 16f, as a 12th-century baptismal font in the baptistery chapel ["Außerhalb dieses Südschiffes entstand eine zweijochige Apostelkapelle, die auch capella baptisterii oder capella fontis (Taufkapelle) genannt wird. In dieser Kapelle steht der nach maasländischem Typus aus Blaustein geschaffene Taufstein aus dem 12. Jahrhundert."] Listed in Drake (2002) as a Belgian baptismal font consisting of a round basin mounted on a single support, althgough it stands on a broad central shaft and four slender corner colonnettes; the basin has human heads at 90-degree angles around the upper rim; they serve as capitals to the columns that continue down the basin sides and tie in with those of the base; each side of the basin is decorated with a lion passant; the underbowl is moulded, as is the lower base around the bases of the columns [NB: the lower base edges appear re-tooled].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.192448, 6.431555
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 32.81″ N, 6° 25′ 53.6″ E
UTM: 32U 320533 5674362

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002