Quedlinburg No. 6 / Queddelnborg / Quitilingaburg
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: all around
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: several, on the stem
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19225QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1693?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?)
Church / Chapel Name: Pfarrkirche St. Nikolai [Pfarrkirche der Neustadt]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Pölkenstraße 22, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3946 528093
Site Location: Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Quedlinburg lies 14 kms S of Halberstadt on road 79, N of the Harz mountains
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Magdeburg
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a band of round arch-heads all around, raised on a circular pedestal base decorated with mouldings.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 648198 5739857
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.789924, 11.148806
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 23.72″ N, 11° 8′ 55.7″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round