Gescher / Gascheri / Gesker
Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
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Results: 8 records
animal - mammal - lion - couchant - protome - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stahlkocher, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 January 2006 by Stahlkocher [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gescher_St_Pankratius.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Esteve García Antoñana in [http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/aportaciones/archivos/tex_gescher_1.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2008]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in the Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius [www.kath-gescher.de/pfarrkirche-st-pankratius/] [accessed 10 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 13936GES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius und St. Marien
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary & St. Pancras [aka Pancratius, Pancrace]
Church Location: Kirchplatz 12, 48712 Gescher, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2542 878960
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located 4 km from Aachen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Esteve García Antoñana for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Ludorf (1914) and Ligtenberg (1915). Listed in Drake (2002) as a Romanesque font of the Bentheim School, 'Berge a.-Type I' in his classification [others in this group are: Ankum 1, Arle, Berge, Emlichheim, Emstek, Haselüne, Hattem, Jellum, Lastrup, Metelen, a fragment in the Münster Museum, Norg 1, Ochtelbur, Ramsdorf, Recke, Toornwerd, Vries, and a fragment at Zweelo]. The font consists of a round basin with tapering sides, slightly concave underbowl chamfer constrained by a thick roll moulding, under which is a square base defined by four couchant-regardant lions at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. The upper rim has been damaged and repaired with inserts. The basin side is decorated with a band of beautifully-rendered acanthus (?) vine with arum bunches between two bands of double rope moulding or braid (the thread in opposite directions), and a band of fan-frieze pattern below.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.956352, 7.004902
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57' 22.87" N, 7° 0' 17.65" E
UTM: 32U 362909 5758064
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, slightly curved and plain, with fleuron finial/handle; modern -- by H. G. Bücker, of Beckum-Vellern
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 173
Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914