Cologne No. 4 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln
Image copyright © [in the public domain]
PD
Results: 10 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by Walker, in Walker (1883)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by Walker, in Walker (1883)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by Walker, in Walker (1883)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by Walker, in Walker (1883)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Allie_Caulfield, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 March 2010 by Allie_Caulfield [www.flickr.com/photos/28577026@N02/4451653250/] [accessed 14 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior in context - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2017 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontal_view_-_St._Gereon_-_Cologne_-_Germany_2017_(2).jpg] [accessed 14 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2015 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Gereon_Köln_-_Kirchenschiff_in_Richung_Chor-9698.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by Walker, in Walker (1883)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pannasonnik, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2008 by Pannasonnik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22761391@N05/3269774783/] [accessed 28 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsh, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2013 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Gereon_Köln,_Taufkapelle_Detail.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 14525COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Basilika Sankt Gereon [Collegiate Church of St. Gereon]
Church Patron Saints: St. Gereon [aka Geron]
Church Location: Gereonshof 2, 50670 Köln-Altstadt-Nord, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 4745070
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) Christophstrasse, NW of the Innenstadt, towards road/hwy 9, W of the river
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Church Notes: first reported church on this site 612; present church started 1151; completed 1227;
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described and illustrated in Walker (1883): "In the baptistry stands a fine font of porphyry, said to be a gift of Charlemagne [...] it is octagonal, the bowl being of the same shape; it is 4 feet 2 1/2 inches over, and 3 feet 10 inches high; the bowl is 3 feet wide and 19 inches deep; there is no ornament, and the mouldings are few but well placed. It is in a fine state of preservation, and a very handsome example." [NB: the claim to be a gift of Charlemagne is surely unfounded for a Transitional font]. The inner basin well is depicted as octagonal in Walker (ibid.) [is the drawing accurate?]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.943333, 6.945833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 36″ N, 6° 56′ 45″ E
UTM: 32U 355691 5645533
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, pophyry
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal (?)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Basin Depth: 47.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * in inches in Walker (1883)
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and almost flat; the centre rounded and slightly raised to a low dome on which a dove finial