Bollendorf No. 1
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 October 2010 by Colin Smith
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view of font or stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17042BOL
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Michael, Bollendorf
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Kirchstraße 32, 54669 Bollendorf, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located in the Verbandsgemeinde Irrel, district Bitburg-Prüm, across the Sauer river from Luxembourg [Coordinates: 49° 51′ 11″ N, 6° 21′ 42″ E
49.853056, 6.361667]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1838-1839?
Century and Period: 19th century, Modern
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: French fonts of the 17th century, mainly in the northeast
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of two almost identical -but mirror-like- octagonal basins on octagonal pedestal bases; the basins are decorated with mouldings towards the top, and a foliage and beaded-tale combination on the lower sides and underbowl; raised on twin plain slender shafts. The inner wells of both basins are not exactly round but have an indentation that creates a gap between the basins and are both lined with metal [copper?]. [NB: the church of St. Michael has it labelled as a double font [="Doppeltaufstein"] even though it has the appearance of a double stoup -- the church has a second font: cf. Index entry for Bollendorf No. 2]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
49.853056,
6.361667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 51′ 11″ N,
6° 21′ 42″ E
UTM: 32U 310354 5525632
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [double-font]
Basin Interior Shape: other
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [double-font]
Drainage Notes: metal-lined (both basins)