Ostercappeln / Osterkappeln
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B01: symbol - tree - Tree of life?
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B02: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - holding crozier in right hand - holding book in left hand - St. Lambert?
Scene Description: the patron saint of this church
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B02: cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - holding crozier in right hand - holding book in left hand - St. Lambert? - detail
Scene Description: notice the halo carved lower down, below the upper rim
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Zacharias - Zacharias and the angel - altar
Scene Description: one altar, with a chalice on it
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Zacharias - Zacharias and the angel - altar - detail
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Zacharias - Zacharias and the angel - altar - detail
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Zacharias - Zacharias and the angel
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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to Zacharias - Zacharias and the angel
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font - east and southeast sides
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font - southwest side
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view of font - northwest side
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view of font - north side
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font - east and northeast sides
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view of font - east side
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: there is no a metal basin insert that is fixed to the side of the stone interior and blocks access to the bottom of the original well
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - bead - detail
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view of basin - east and southeast sides - detail
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - bead - detail
Scene Description: the beads in the lower spandrels formed by the acanthus plants -- notice the traces of colour in the interstices
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - bead
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: occupying the lower half of the basin on the southwest and sides
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: damage to the acanthus vine on the lower southeast side of the basin
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest end - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2006 by Tebdi [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ostercappeln_Lambertuskirche.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the back
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view of church interior - apse - window
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view of church interior - window
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font in context - east side
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view of church interior - statue
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - palmette - bead
Scene Description: forming a pattern all around, the beads in the upper spandrels or interstices formed by the palmettes
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13981OST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Westphalian cylinder font
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Lambertus
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Notes: possible Carolingian church or baptistery here; original 12thC church re-built 13thC; old church demolished 1872, but the 13thC tower was retained
Church Address: Kirchplatz 1, 49179 Ostercappeln, Germany
Site Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 15 km NE of Osnabrück
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Font Notes:
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Noted in Drake (2002) as a Westphalian cylinder font with framed panelling that includes "the Annunciation to Zacaraias, who is shown censing the altar on which a chalice stands. On the other side of the altar the angel stretches out his right hand to the old priest, who raises jis left hand in ashtonishment. The figure of a bishop completes the programme." The cylindrical basin has a deeply carved programme that includes a standing bishop figure. quite likely the patron saint of the church, Lambert [aka Lambertus or Landebertus, bishop of Maastricht, believed to have died a martyr ca. 700 A.D.]; to the left of Lambert is a beautiful interlace that could symbolise the Tree of Life; to the right of Lambert is Zacharias and the angel; right of that is the altar, and still moving to the right right is the scene of the Annunciation to Zacharias, as noted in Drake above, and next another representation of the altar on the left of Lambert, diametrically opposed to the one right of the angel. The base or lower part of the font bulges out and is decorated with an acanthus vine all around.
set of font photos by Groenling at
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2901564198/sizes/l/in/pool-11988658@N00/
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2901563320/sizes/o/in/pool-11988658@N00/
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2900720005/sizes/o/in/pool-11988658@N00/
set of font photos by Groenling at
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2901564198/sizes/l/in/pool-11988658@N00/
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2901563320/sizes/o/in/pool-11988658@N00/
http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2900720005/sizes/o/in/pool-11988658@N00/
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 447215 5799647
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.344583, 8.225139
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 20′ 40.5″ N, 8° 13′ 30.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: [no access]
Drainage Notes: metal basin insert in place; no access to the bottom of the inner stone well
Rim Thickness: 18-19 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 68 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 100-102 cm
Basin Depth: 45 cm [guestimate; no access]
Basin Total Height: 76 cm
Height of Base: 26 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 79, 81, 82