Methelin

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14544MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: anoter font resting on lions at Brenken
Font Location in Church: unknown
Site Location: Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: site not located
Font Notes:
Lübke (1870) notes as a font that rests on the "forms of lions": " These fonts often rest on forms of lions, as in the churches of Methelin and Brenken in Westphalia".

REFERENCES

  • Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870, p. 186