Herford

Lübke (1870) notes a Gothic font with figural ornamention in this church. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herforder_Münster] [accessed 23 August 2025] notes and illustrates a baptismal font of 1500 in the baptismal chapel; it is decorated with Biblical scenes and figures of saints: "Taufstein aus dem Jahre 1500 mit Heiligenstatuetten und sehr lebendig gestalteten biblischen Szenen in den Reliefs. Er steht in der kryptaähnlichen Taufkapelle unterhalb der sog. „Schlafhausempore“, in den einige Stufen links vor dem Chorraum hinabführen." The font is illustrated in Wikimedia in two digital photographs taken 16 December 2009 by TUBS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herford_2009-12-16_(207).jpg] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herford_2009-12-16_(261).jpg] [accessed 23 August 2025]: the font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which contain plain round arches framing individual Biblical scenes (Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Moses parting the Red Sea, Noah's ark, etc.); the lower rim of the basin is carved in an exquisite pattern of round arch-heads all around; the pedestal base is also octagonal, each side containing a decorated niche with a figure standing on a short platform in it; the lower base is also octagonal. There is no cover present but there is a modern baptismal dish of metal atop.