Memmingen No. 2

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 November 2013)
Results: 6 records
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - north side - painting

Scene Description: 1520 fresco by Bernhard Strigel uncovered in 1954 above the north entranceway: "Aufgedeckt und erneuert im Jahre 1954 W. Gelser"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2007 by Thomas Mirtsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FreskokinderlehrkircheMM.JPG][accessed 17 November 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church exterior - west view
view of church interior - painting
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 18778MEM
Church/Chapel: Kinderlehrkirche [aka Reformation Antoniuskapelle] [originally Klosterkirche des Antoniterordens]
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Country Name: Germany
Location: Schwaben, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located just S of Martinskirche
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: monastery church started in 1393; completed 1512; abandoned 1562 and unused until 1684; 1684-1782 served as parish church; restored in 1872, 1938, 1954, 1987, 2010;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font, like the altar, dates from the renovation of 1872; it is made of wood and consists of an octagonal basin with mouldings and tracery on the sides, raised on a slender cotagonal pedestal case with window tracery on the sides, and a moulded lower base of the same shape. Matching wooden cover, low pyramidal with a floral finial. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.985265,
10.17923
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 59′ 6.95″ N,
10° 10′ 45.23″ E
UTM: 32T 587990 5315335