Coesfeld No. 1 / Koesfeld

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk?

Scene Description: their avian bodies are tangled in a thick vine, while their dragon-like heads point down and bite the front paws of the felines climbing on the sides of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?

Scene Description: pairs of facing dragon-like beasts tied together by their long tails with rings; their heads point down to the lower levl with the avian beasts

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon? - with prey

Scene Description: some of the pairs appear to be biting on unidentified prey, rounded heads with long thin tails

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: populated with fabulous avians

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: background to the dragon-like beasts on this level

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

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information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

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view of basin

Scene Description: a busy weave of deeply-carved animals at two levels covers most of the surface of the basin; the upper row is made up of linked quadrupeds, while the lower one has a thick vine populated with avians, perhaps basilisks, who bite the front paws of the lions that climb up on the sides of the pedestal base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the metal frame that supports the font cover is affixed to the inner walls of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: evidence of the original carving and later repairs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the several repairs to the upper side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: detail of one of the several repairs to the upper side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior

Scene Description: the re-built church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2006 by Stahlkocher [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jakobi_(Coesfeld)#mediaviewer/Datei:Coesfeld_Sankt_Jacobi_autostitch.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the church in 1907

Image Source: illustration in Albert Ludorff's Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Coesfeld (1907) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Jacobi_1907_Coesfeld3.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: Romanesque portal of ca. 1248 -- Photo caption: "The 12th century St. Jakobikirche was bombed during WWII, but the old doorway survives and a new church was built behind it. Doorway St. Jakobikirche in Coesfeld Germany dating from the period that Coesfeld was granted city rights (the town charter is dated 1197). The church was bombed in WWII but the doorway remained. A new church was built after the war, but the door is kept as a symbol for St. James pilgrims on the way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain (a map of the old St. James way and explanation are on a commemortative plaque)."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2011 by Jane 023 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coesfeld#mediaviewer/File:Doorway_St._Jakobikirche_in_Coesfeld_Germany.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: the old portal can be seen inside, at the back -- the re-built church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2006 by Stahlkocher [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coesfeld_Sankt_Jacobi_Portal.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the church in 1907

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: the original portal in 1907

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - lapidarium - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the re-built church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2012 by Günter Seggebäing [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jakobi_(Coesfeld)#mediaviewer/Datei:Coesfeld_St._Jakobi_-_Mittelschiff.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the re-built church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2012 by Günter Seggebäing [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coesfeld_St._Jakobi_-_Mittelschiff_nach_Westen.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font beneath the organ loft

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Marienaltar made in Antwerp in 1520; the outer wings by Theodor Stracke, of Bocholt, added in 1892 -- Photo caption: "Antwerpener Altar. Das Kernstück des Schnitzaltars der Jakobikirche in Coesfeld wurde 1520 in Antwerpen gefertigt. Der Marienaltar wurde 1892 um Flügel ergänzt, die ein Werk von Theodor Stracke aus Bocholt sind."

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view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. James the Greater

Scene Description: 1696 -- said to contain a relic of the saint

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2012 by Günter Seggebäing [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coesfeld_St._Jakobi_-_Statue_Hl._Jakobus.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: the avian beasts of the lower side of the basin bite the front paws of the climbing felines

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - detail

Scene Description: the avian beasts of the lower side of the basin bite the front paws of the climbing felines

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - detail

Scene Description: the avian beasts of the lower side of the basin bite the front paws of the climbing felines

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font and cover before the 1945 bombing of this church

Image Source: Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg [Digitales Bild (retrodigitalisiert)]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 March 2012 by Günter Seggebäing [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jakobi_(Coesfeld)#mediaviewer/Datei:Coesfeld_St._Jakobi_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19309COE

Church/Chapel: St. Jakobikirche / Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Jacobi

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Kellerstraße 1, 48653 Coesfeld, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2541 7408050

Country Name: Germany

Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the 474-525 crossroads, W of Münster

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Font Location in Church: inside the re-built church, at the W end, beneath the organ loft

Date: ca. 1230?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Church Notes: original pilgrimage chapel here built 1195; new church with great doorway built 1248; church almost totally destroyed on 21 March 1945 Allied bombing; re-built 1954

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: baptismal font of [Bamberg sand]stone consisting of a round basin deeply carved with an intricate interlace of acanthus vines and animal bodies at two levels, dragon-like quadrupeds on the upper row, basilisk-like aviand in the row bwlow; the round pedestal base has four couchant-regardant lions arranged at 90-degree angles, the bodies climbing upwards to the basin; the font was probably much damaged in the March 1945 Allied bombing that practically destroyed the church itself. The metal cover is modern and has a dove finial. A photograph of the font before the 1945 bombing exists in the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, and has been digitised by the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg [Digitales Bild (retrodigitalisiert)] and can be seen at www.bildindex.de/dokumente/html/obj20476577#|home [accessed 29 June 2014]; it shows the font with a medium dome cover of patterned top.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.942963, 7.167939

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 34.67″ N, 7° 10′ 4.58″ E

UTM: 32U 374073 5756280

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bamberg sandstone?)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 15 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm

Basin Depth: 34-35 cm

Basin Total Height: 46 cm

Height of Base: 39 cm

Height of Central Column: 24 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 94 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round low flattish dome; avian finial; rests on frame secured to inner well of basin