Kissing

Main image for Kissing

Image copyright © Dark Avenger, 2008

GFDL

Results: 3 records

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dark Avenger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2005 by Dark Avenger [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kissing_Stephan_5.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

Scene Description: showing Matthew's angel on this side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dark Avenger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2005 by Dark Avenger [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kissing_Stephan_5.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL

design element - motifs - vine - palmette

Scene Description: all around below the upper rim; it morphs into different shape on each side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dark Avenger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2005 by Dark Avenger [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kissing_Stephan_5.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16240KIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Object Details: capital
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Stephan, Kissing
Font Location in Church: Inside, beneath the W gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: church documented ca. 1200; re-built 15thC; modified since;
Church Address: Kirchberg, 86438 Kissing, Germany
Site Location: Aichach-Friedberg, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off Hwy 2, 6-7 km SE of Augsburg city centre, about 50 km WSW of Munich.
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Augsburg
Additional Comments: altered font (the cushion-capital base was installed in 1868
Font Notes:
Baptismal font noted and illustrated in the German Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephan_(Kissing)] [accessed 30 August 2025]: "Das bedeutendste Kunstwerk der Pfarrkirche ist der romanische Taufstein aus der zweiten Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts, der heute im Westen unter der Empore steht. Die qualitätvolle Arbeit weist auf Vorbilder in Oberitalien und erinnert an das gleichzeitige Taufbecken der Basilika St. Michael in Altenstadt bei Schongau. An den Seiten sind die Symbole der vier Evangelisten halbplastisch aus dem Sandstein herausgearbeitet. Darüber läuft ein Palmettenfries um das Becken. Als Fuß dient seit 1868 ein romanisches Würfelkapitell aus dem hochmittelalterlichen Gotteshaus. Taufbecken und Kapitell lassen auf eine künstlerisch hochrangige Ausstattung der ursprünglichen Kirche schließen, die in der Nähe der großen welfischen Burg Mergenthau lag."
Stone baptismal font consisting of a basin of quatrefoil shape decorated with a running vine around the upper side, while the full sides are decorated with the symbols of the Four Evangelists; by contrast the base, which is cushion-capital shaped, is plain. Font cover is a quatrefoiled low dome with tracery decoration on the top; painted and gilded; cross finial. There is a set of digital photographs showing details of this font in Wikimedia taken 16 August 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_St._Stephan_(Kissing)] [accessed 30 August 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 647567 5351169
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.2965, 10.9897
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 17′ 47.4″ N, 10° 59′ 22.92″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: quatrefoiled low dome with tracery decoration on the top; painted and gilded; cross finial