Westerland / Westterland auf Sylt / Vesterland / Wäästerlön / Weesterlön

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one appears to include part of the body as well

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Uwe Barghaan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westerland_St._Nicolai_Taufe.jpg] accessed 28 March 2010]

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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2008

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LBH01: human figure - head - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Uwe Barghaan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westerland_St._Nicolai_Taufe.jpg] accessed 28 March 2010]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Uwe Barghaan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westerland_St._Nicolai_Taufe.jpg] accessed 28 March 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16245WES
Church/Chapel: Stadtkirche St. Nicolai / Nicolaikirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located on the island of Sylt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Baptismal font made of granite, consisting of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles on the upper sides, though one of them appears to include part of the body as well; it is raised on a round-to-square block base decorated with a roll moulding and four human heads at the top end, the sides themselves plain except for one that has a fleur-de-lis symbol on it..

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round