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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12?

Scene Description: some are easily identifiable by their symbols

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - sphinx

Scene Description: two of them seen here; the one on the left has human lower extremities; the one on the right has a scroll lower end

Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_detail_wooden_base.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - with staff - giving benediction

Scene Description: in the second arch from the left: St Magnus? (patron saint of this church? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - crocketed arches

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - sphinx - 4

Scene Description: in the wooden 17th-century base [cf. Font notes] -- notice that one, seen here in the centre, has legs ending in claws, whereas the two on the sides have scrolled lower extremities

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: several; now half covered or cut, like the one here in the centre

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles -- notice that they prtrude slightly into the wooden base, which has been notched to accommodate them

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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inscription

Scene Description: [among the names is Hinrik Klinghe, the maker of the font [cf. Inscription area and Footnotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: including the date of the font, 1474, in Roman numerals

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of base

Scene Description: the wooden base of ca. 1600, a replacement of the missing original [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/esens] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of base

Scene Description: Source caption: " Gotisches bronzenes Taufbecken gegossen von Hinrich Klinghe in der St. Magnus Kirche in Esens (Kreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland). Detail des hölzernen Sockels aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, vier Sphinxen darstellend. Ansicht aus nördlicher Richtung."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Turm von St. Magnus in Esens"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2011 by Daniel Brockpähler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_Magnus_Turm.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Esens um 1700. Zeichnung von Pastor c. W. Schneider"

Image Source: digital image [12 December 2009 scan by Matthias Süßen] of Esens um 1700. Zeichnung von Pastor c. W. Schneider, in Politische Geschichte Ostfriesland by Heinrich Schmidt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens1700.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mittelschiff der St. Magnus Kirche in Esens (Kreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland). Mit Blick auf den Altar und Leuchtern"

Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_central_nave.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2021 by Bärwinkel,Klaus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_St._Magnus_Esens_2.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]

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view of font and context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zu den ältesten Objekten zählt die Bronzetaufe, die 1474 von Hinrich Klinghe gegossen wurde. Die Außenseiten des Beckens sind durch gotische Kielbögen gegliedert, unter denen ein Kreuzigungsrelief zwischen Maria und Johannes zu sehen ist. Daran schließen Darstellungen der Apostel Paulus, Andreas, Jakobus der Ältere, Bartholomäus, Philippus (?), ein Relief der Taufe Christi im Jordan, ein heiliger Bischof (Nikolaus?) sowie Thaddäus (?), Thomas, Matthäus (?), Johannes und Petrus an. Die ursprünglich das Becken tragenden Bronzefiguren gingen im Laufe der Jahrhunderte verloren und wurden um 1600 durch vier hölzerne weibliche Sphinxe ersetzt. In der gleichen Zeit wurde auch der hölzerne Deckel der Taufe geschaffen".

Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/esens] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2007 by groenling [in FLICKR]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ev.-Luth. Kirche St. Magnus in Esens. Blick auf das geöffnete Taufbecken und den Hochaltar im Chor. Die auf der Altarplatte ruhende Predella ist ein Werk des Bildschnitzers Jacob Cröpelin und zeigt das heilige Abendmahl. Der Altaraufsatz mit dem Kruzifix ist von 1714."

Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2021 by Bärwinkel,Klaus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_St._Magnus_Esens_3.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " Gotisches bronzenes Taufbecken gegossen von Hinrich Klinghe in der St. Magnus Kirche in Esens (Kreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland) aus dem Jahr 1474. Ansicht aus nördlicher Richtung."

Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_N.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2019 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esens_St._Magnus_church_baptismal_font_W.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of font cover

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 September 2007 by groenling [in FLICKR]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17137ESE

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Magnus-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Magnus [Magnus of Trani? / of Füssen?]

Church Location: Kirchpl., 26427 Esens, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4971 919712

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km NW of Stedesdorf, 14 km N of Wittmund, 20 km NE of of Aurich, on the S shore of the Ostfriesische Inseln

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Date: 1474

Century and Period: 15th century (late) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Heinrich Klinghe [aka Hinrik Klinghe]

Cognate Fonts: other fonts by this family workshop

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: earlier wooden church of ca. 1100 a chapel of ease to Stedesdorf; replaced by stone church 13thC; destroyed 1540; re-built; demolished 1847; present church of 1854;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for Esens in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/esens] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a composite baptismal font: bronze basin made by Hinrich Klighe in 1474 on a wooden base of ca. 1600; the basin has a Gothic arcade with a Crucifixion, Mary and Joseph presenj, the Apostles Paul, Andrew, James the greater, Bartholomew, Philip, a Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, a bishop (probably St Nicholas), Thomas, Matthew, John and Peter; the bronze figures supporting the basin were lost and replaced by the present wooden sphinxes around 1600; wooden cover also ca. 1600 [="Zu den ältesten Objekten zählt die Bronzetaufe, die 1474 von Hinrich Klinghe gegossen wurde. Die Außenseiten des Beckens sind durch gotische Kielbögen gegliedert, unter denen ein Kreuzigungsrelief zwischen Maria und Johannes zu sehen ist. Daran schließen Darstellungen der Apostel Paulus, Andreas, Jakobus der Ältere, Bartholomäus, Philippus (?), ein Relief der Taufe Christi im Jordan, ein heiliger Bischof (Nikolaus?) sowie Thaddäus (?), Thomas, Matthäus (?), Johannes und Petrus an. Die ursprünglich das Becken tragenden Bronzefiguren gingen im Laufe der Jahrhunderte verloren und wurden um 1600 durch vier hölzerne weibliche Sphinxe ersetzt. In der gleichen Zeit wurde auch der hölzerne Deckel der Taufe geschaffen." The unidentified bishop figure on the basin could perhaps be St. Magnus? [Magnus of Trani? / of Füssen?]; at the upper and lower basin sides are inscriptions in German identifuing the maker and the year, as well as several protruding human heads. The base ihasstrange putto-like winged creatures with human female breasts [sphinxes? cf. supra]; one of them has feline hind legs, the others simply multiple scrolls. The wooden cover is polygonal, of several volumes tapering up in size, busily decorated with scroll-work and mouldings.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.647452, 7.612576

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 38′ 50.83″ N, 7° 36′ 45.28″ E

UTM: 32U 408291 5945193

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal & wood, bronze [basin only] -- the later base is wood]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German and Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: two inscription; on the basin sides

Inscription Text: 1)"[...]s anna s katerina s margreta sdoretea s barbara s gartrud s lucia s maria + magdalena ursela] hinrik klinghe de mi ghegaten hat got gheve siner sele rad" 2) "[...]anno d[...]ni m cccc / lxx iiii an mi sc / [h?]al men de salic / [hh?]ei[t?] ent fangh[eit?[...]?

Inscription Source: [NB:partial transcription recorded in groenling [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/1391779855/in/photostream/]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century (?)

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]