Memmingen No. 1
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 November 2013)
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Mirtsch, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2008 by Thomas Mirtsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.MartinimSchnee.JPG][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2008 by Thomas Mirtsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMartinMMvonWestenb.jpg][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the top of the font visible in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - choir - stalls - north side
Scene Description: the 1507 choir
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2008 by Mrilabs [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMartinChorgestuehl6.jpg][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of church interior - choir - stalls - south side
Scene Description: the 1507 choir
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2008 by Mrilabs [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMartinSchiff2.jpg][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - north side - painting
Scene Description: 1588; Passion cycle
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: showing the 1998 organ
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johannes Böckh, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2009 by Johannes Böckh [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMartinOrgelAussen03.jp][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: ca. 1445; east end
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view of church interior - pulpit
Scene Description: the 1699 pulpit by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2008 by Mrilabs [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StMartinKanzel.jpg][accessed 17 November 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 November 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 18777MEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Martin-Luther-Platz 8, 87700 Memmingen, Germany -- Tel,: +49 8331 856920
Country Name: Germany
Location: Schwaben, Bayern
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, near the altar
Date: 1524
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Memmingen Our Lady's
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church may have been built in the 9thC; present church was started in 1325, finished 1500
Font Notes:
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The present font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with a pronounced moulding at the upper rim, raised on a moulded round pedestal base; incised inscription with date 1524 on the upper rim; made of reddish marble. Wooden cover round, flat and plain, with brass handle and hinges; hinged in the middle. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 14th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.986111, 10.179167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 59' 10" N, 10° 10' 45" E
UTM: 32T 587983 5315429
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the upper rim moulding of the basin
Inscription Text: "1524"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]