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
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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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
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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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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-2.5 / CC-BY-SA-3.0
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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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-2.5 / CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16245WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Stadtkirche St. Nicolai / Evangelish-lutherische Nicolaikirche, Westerland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: St. Nicolai-Straße 5, 25980 Sylt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4651 22263
Site Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the island of Sylt, in the centre area
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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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..
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 455643 6084595
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.9064, 8.30819
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 54′ 23.04″ N, 8° 18′ 29.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round