Cologne No. 11 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2010 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Ursula_Köln_(5020-22).jpg] [accessed 20 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2008
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2012 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Ursula_Köln2.JPG] [accessed 20 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arabsalam, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2015 by Arabsalam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Ursula_Köln36.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2008 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_Sankt_Ursula_15_ies.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the present font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Axel Kirch, 2015
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view of font cover - finial
Scene Description: the finial of the present font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Axel Kirch, 2015
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14565COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St. Ursula zu Köln
Church Patron Saints: St. Ursula
Church Location: Ursulapl. 24, 50668 Köln-Altstadt-Nord, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 133400
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) Ursulaplatz, on the W side of the main railway tracks, S of highway 9
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: said to have been built in 1106 to house the tomb of the eleven [thousand?] virgins killed by the Huns in the 5thC; made Minor Basilica since 1920
Font Notes:
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Walker (1883) reports a font of similar character to that in the church of St. George" in this church [cf. Index entry for Cologne No. 3]. The present [2008] font in use at St Ursula's, however, is modern, consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, all covered in neo-Gothic tracery, raised on a pedestal base of decagonal shape. Mid-height pyramidal metal cover, the sides decorated with round panels containing scenes, surrounded with foliage patterns; large garlands lower on the sides; sculptural finial. We have found no information on the whereabouts of the earlier font here.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.945833, 6.954444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 45″ N, 6° 57′ 16″ E
UTM: 32U 356303 5645794
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; p. 66