Fehmarn No. 1 / Borch up Vemere / Borg up Fehmarn / Burg auf Fehmarn / Burghæby / Burgk uff Femern / Femern

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Results: 8 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
BH01: human figure - head
BH02: human figure - head - crowned
BH03: human figure - head - crowned
BH04: human figure - head - crowned
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Jirjahlke, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Peter Jirjahlke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StNikolai-Steintaufe.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
R01: design element - motifs - torus-scotia
INFORMATION
FontID: 16249FEH
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Hallenkirche St. Nikolai
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Breite Str. 47, 23769 Burg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4371 2250
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: The island of Fehmarn [Femern in Danish] is located 18 km S of Lolland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
One of two font in this church [cf. Index entry of Fehmarn No. 2 for the 14th-century bronze font in this church]. Baptismal font of the group 'Paradise fonts' made on Gotland of local sandstone; the basin is quatrefoiled inside and out, and has a torus-scotia combination atr the upper rim; on each side, at the top of the ribbed pattern, a crowned head, each different from the others [NB: one of the heads may not wear a crown]; it is raised on a moulded pedestal base of the same quatrefoiled shape. The basin shows signs of repairs, and a part of it may be a modern reconstruction.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.438611,
11.1975
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 26′ 19″ N,
11° 11′ 51″ E
UTM: 32U 642515 6034547
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (Gotland)
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil