Cologne No. 8 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: foliated capitals of the old -now missing and replaced- columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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human figure - head, face or mask
Scene Description: are these modern additions? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of basin
![was this drawing accurate? the heads are not shown in it [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090502001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: was this drawing accurate? the heads are not shown in it [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Th. Guyot in Walker (1883)
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cologne_Germany_St-Maria-Lyskirchen-02.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church exterior in context
![FONT 3 digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019] Source caption: "St. Maria Lyskirchen Köln. Der Taufstein aus der Frühzeit der staufischen Kirche entstammt in Teilen dem Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191016005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: FONT 3 digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019] Source caption: "St. Maria Lyskirchen Köln. Der Taufstein aus der Frühzeit der staufischen Kirche entstammt in Teilen dem Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Maria_in_Lyskirchen_(8548-8556).jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cologne_Germany_St-Maria-Lyskirchen-01.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: with the metal cover lifted and held up by a chain hooked to the back wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arabsalam, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2018 by Arabsalam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyskirchen_Köln_178.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern cover; it is hinged on the side for opening
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Maria-Lyskirchen-Taufstein-Ende-13-JH.JPG] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14562COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St. Maria Lyskirchen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: An Lyskirchen 10, 50676 Köln-Altstadt-Süd, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 214615
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) of Grosse Witschgasse, and W of road/hwy 51, just W of the river and N of Severin's Bridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Walker with a drawing by Théophile Guyot (1883): "octagonal stone font of thirteenth century date [...] unfortunately it has lost the base or portion below the basin proper [...] at the angles of the octagon are carved caps, and springing from them, and forming a feature on each face, is a cusped trefoil." [NB: in Walker's drawing the inner basin well appears to be octagonal but Walker writes: "the bowl being circular"]. [NB: the font has now [2010] a human mask or head at each of the upper angles of the basin; they look original, but it is difficult to accept that Walker, who is otherwise fairly accurate in his drawings, would have missed the heads entirely -- are they modern additions then?]. The font is now [2010] mounted on modern a base consisting of a broad central shaft and eight attached outer colonnettes on an octagonal lower base; the bse is done in the same black stone as the basin, with the exception of the outer colonnettes, which are white. A brass cover resembling a three-teer pudding is now on the font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.933007, 6.962543
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 58.82″ N, 6° 57′ 45.16″ E
UTM: 32U 356833 5644352
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 112.5 cm* [presumed max. width]
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Walker (1883)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; p. 64 and fig. 8[c]