Neumagen-Dhron / Neumagen / Noviomagus Treverorum
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 November 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17152NEU
Church/Chapel: [Parish Church]
Country Name: Germany
Location: Trier-Saarburg, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Neumagen-Dhron, 15 km S of Wittlich, 20 km NW of Trier [Coordinates: 49° 51′ 34.2″ N, 6° 53′ 51.36″ E 49.8595, 6.8976 -- UTM 32U 348894 5525129]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font made of reddish marble, consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a pronounced projecting upper rim, a scotia below and a pattern of ribs all around the lower basin and the underbowl; raised on a polygonal baluster-shaped pedestal base and a square lower base with chamfered angles and graded moulding. The metal cover is medium domed, the shape common in the area, and probably 18th century. The font itself could be of that date, or of later date following a popular design.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
metal,
brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]