Wipperfurth / Weperevorthe / Wipperfürth

Baptismal font consisting of a metal basin in the traditional shape made by medieval bell founders, with a lip moulding at the upper rim; there is a blind arcade of trefoiled arches all around, the thin columns on which it rests made of torsade pattern [NB: some are very worn, other obviously restored or replaced]; the spandrels of the arcade are filled with plain circles; the metal looks like lead but is it? It is raised on a modern stone base with a round upper volume that matches the nottom of the basin in size, a round stem with a moulding, and round-to-square lower base with leaves at 90-degree angles; narrow square plinth. The wooden font cover is of the type that replicates a building, perhaps a church, with domed roof and pointed turrets around; on a round crenellated base; appears modern. Noted and illustrated in the German Wikimedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nikolaus_(Wipperfürth)] [accessed 30 August 2025] as a 13th-century lead font located at the east end of the north aisle: "In der Apsis des nördlichen Nebenchores steht das spätromanische, aus Blei gegossene Taufbecken aus Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts[1]. Der sich nach unten verjüngende Kessel ist mit gedrehten Halbsäulen und Dreipassarkaden verziert und mit Wulst abgeschlossen. Das Becken steht auf einem Rundpfeiler mit quadratischer Basis."