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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the medieval baptistery [cf. Font notes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14563COL
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Kunibert
Church Patron Saints: St. Cunibert [aka Cunibertus, Cunipert, Kunibert]
Church Location: Kunibertsklostergasse 2, 50668 Köln-Altstadt-Nord, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 121214
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located at Kunibertskloster 2, just W of the Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer and the river, N of the Hohenzollern bridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church Notes: original church, possibly dedicated to St Clement ca. 700; replaced by 11thC building; present church consecrated mid-13thC; declared Basilica Minor in 1998; severely damaged in WWII Allied bombings; reconstruction completed 1985
Noted and illustrated in Walker (1883): "The font [...] is of first Pointed date; octagonal with circular bowl [...] the lower part of the base is square; the cover is modern, of good character, and is lifted by a fine wrought iron crane of the sixteenth century." The cover Walker noted [cf. supra] has been replaced by a low-dome metal cover with ball finial [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old cover]. The font is now [2010] located in the mid-13th century baptistery of the church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.946699, 6.962706
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 48.11″ N, 6° 57′ 45.74″ E
UTM: 32U 356886 5645874

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 97.5 cm* [presumed max. width]
Font Height (less Plinth): 112.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Walker (1883)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal,
Apparatus: yes; wrought iron crane of the 16th century
Notes: a modern cover has replaced the earlier one noted in Walker [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; r["References"]