Dortmund No. 2

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 4

Scene Description: four very large arch-heads at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - detail

Scene Description: one of the decorated capitals of the unsupported arcade and its spandrel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: a combination of, some inverted

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - lily- beaded-tape

Scene Description: a pair of well-rendered lillies with beaded-tape ornament on the outer sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rose

Scene Description: a rather battered one, as seen here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus - with arum - beaded tape

Scene Description: a well-rendered acanthus plant bearing arum fruit, with beaded-tape ornament on the outer sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus - with arum - beaded tape - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: showing the damage to the moulding and lower basin side, on the north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: the lower base is modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dortmund, Marienkirche, Taufstein, unbekannter Standort 1894" [NB: the arch on the right may have had origianlly a motif or figure in it]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Albert Ludorff's Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Dortmund-Stadt (Münster, 1894) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_2550-Marienkirche-Taufstein-1894.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - east side

Scene Description: showing the large damaged area of the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: showing the samage on the east side of the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - information sign

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marienkirche Dortmund, Nordseite, romanisches Portal".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2016 by Mathias Bigge [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tor-IMG_1951.JPG] [accessed 23 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marienkirche in Dortmund um 1860, Ansicht von Nordwesten".

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1860 illustration in Franz Alexander Borchel's Bildband Ruhrgebiet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarienkircheDortmund.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-Art (PD-old-100)

view of church exterior - southeast end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: view of the church before its destruction in 1940

Image Source: digital image of a 1870 postcard (?) in http://wiki-de.genealogy.net [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dortmund_Marienkirche_1870.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: GPL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: retable signed Conrad von Soest, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side - detail

Scene Description: sacristy door?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - choir - stalls - misericords

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marienkirche Dortmund, Cappenberger Chorgestühl (~1520), Miserikordien mit symbolischer Darstellung des Ehebrechers in der Gabel des Schandprangers".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2016 by Mathias Bigge [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chorgestuehl-Detail-2-IMG_1322.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: sandstone Madonna, the work of R. Fritz, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: sandstone Madonna, the work of R. Fritz, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: sandstone Madonna, the work of R. Fritz, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: sandstone Madonna, the work of R. Fritz, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: sandstone Madonna, the work of R. Fritz, 1420

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: this is the side with the worst damage to the upper rim, a relic from an old font-cover anchor

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 16241DOR

Church/Chapel: Marienkirche / Evangelische Stadtkirche St. Marien

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kleppingstraße 5, 44135 Dortmund, Germany -- Tel.: +49 231 526548

Country Name: Germany

Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the B1-B54 crossroads, ENE of Bocum, in the Rhur region

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Berswordtkapelle

Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic

Church Notes: original church 1170-1200; dilapidated and closed up several times in its history; restored 1839 and again in 1882; partially destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1944, WWII; re-built thereafter; re-opened 1959

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: a large basin of roughly hemispherical shape with a pronounced flat moulding at the upper rim decorated with fleur-de-lys, some inverted; below is a set of four large trefoiled arch-heads, without supports but with decorated capitals at the end of the arches; the spandrels are filled with floral-foliage motifs; one set has large lillies with a border of beaded-tape; the other set has an acanthus plant with arum fruit, also with a border of beaded-tape pattern; the lower end of the basin has a rope moulding, an area of which is damamged; there is also a large area of damage at the east side of the upper rim, quite likely where the anchoring for an old cover was. The general state of wear suggests that this font was exposed to all weathers for a long time, and that it may have been used as a water or animal trough. The trefoiled arches suggest a date in the 13th century, already in the Gothic period, as do the floral patterns on the sides. There is no cover present; the basin has a fixed transparent [glass?] lid on it now. There is no drain hole nor is there a lining inside the well. The basin is raised on a squat plinth, modern. [cf. Index entry for Dortmund No. 3 for the Baroque font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.514167, 7.4675

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 51″ N, 7° 28′ 3″ E

UTM: 32U 393661 5708118

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 15-18 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 84-86 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 117 cm

Basin Depth: 50 cm [approximate; no direct access]

Basin Total Height: 76 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 92 cm [modern plinth]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site