Damshagen

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Ch. Pagenkopf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_in_Damshagen_1.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2010]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Ch. Pagenkopf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_in_Damshagen.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2010]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2008 by Ch. Pagenkopf [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_in_Damshagen_1.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16243DAM

Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche St. Thomas / Thomaskirche in Damshagen

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located ENE of Lubeck, in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, by the Baltic coast

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

Date: ca. 1230?

Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten

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The Parish website [http://www.kirchenkreis-wismar.de/Damshagen.26.0.html] [accessed 28 March 2010] attributes the font to the original church of ca. 1230. It is of a popular design that was continued in later times as well [like the Paradise fonts of Gotland limestone, to which group this font might well belong]: a hemispherical basin with incised ribbed pattern on the basin sides, raised on a circular stem and a moulded lower base.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 641337 5977590

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round