Bramsche

Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Assumed PD

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Groenling, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 May 2008 by Groenling; in Flickr [http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2969144366/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 15 November 2008]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

human figure

Scene Description: said to be the only one remaing now [of. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Groenling, 2008

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 May 2008 by Groenling; in Flickr [http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2969144366/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 15 November 2008]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bramsche: Kirche St. Martin"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sail over, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 18 Apruk 2010 by Sail over [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bramsche_st_martin_01.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: the basin is shown upside down, with the foliage pattern next to the ground

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Groenling, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2008 by Groenling; in Flickr [http://flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/2969144366/in/pool-churchfurnishings] [accessed 15 November 2008]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 13985BRA
Church/Chapel: Martinskirche im Bramsche
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Am Markt 1 / Kirchhofstraße 1, 49565 Bramsche, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Weser-Ems, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 68, W of the E37, 20 km NNW of Osnabrück
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: [1235?]
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]; also the font Lagenhorst
Noted in Drake (2002) as one of a group of Westphalian cylinder fonts, a sub-group of which have figures beneath a Lombard frieze (sub-group B3) [the fonts listed in this sub-group are: Aplerbeck, Bochum, Bramsche, Hagen, Lippoldsberg, Rastede]. Baptismal font consisting of circular basin with moulded upper and lower ends, the space in between originally decorated with niches in which stood figures, but only one of these remains, the rest having been plastered (?) over; one of the lower moulding is decorated with an acanthus (?) vine; the others are either flat or rounded, but plain. The entry for this church in Die St.-Martin-Kirchengemeinde Bramsche [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822040256/http://www.st-martin-bramsche.de/stmarten_main.php] [accessed 11 June 2024] reports: "Romanisch sind der Turm und das Hauptschiff (um 1200) sowie der Taufstein (1235)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.408, 7.98028
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 28.8″ N, 7° 58′ 49.01″ E
UTM: 32U 430635 5806908

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and slightly domed, with round handle/finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

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