Haltern / Haltern am See

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Results: 10 records
design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 8
design element - architectural - capital - 8
Scene Description: are these stumps the capitals of missing colonnettes? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by Arnoldius [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haltern_St_Sixtus_baptismal_font.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
view of church exterior in context - southwest end
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Haltern am See, St.-Sixtus-Kirche und Marktbrunnen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietmar Rabich, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2013 by Dietmar Rabich [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haltern_am_See,_St.-Sixtus-Kirche_und_Marktbrunnen_--_1.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the baptismal font and cover stand in the centre of the aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rabanus Flavus, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2011 by Rabanus Flavus [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haltern_St._Sixtus_03_Orgel.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church interior - retable - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 19318HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Sixtus
Church Patron Saints: St. Sixtus II
Church Location: Gildenstraße 22, 45721 Haltern am See, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2364 92360
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located 15 km N of Recklinghausen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: church first documented in 1188; re-built in late-14thC; expanded and re-built 1870s with the new tower on the north side
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides below a moulding at the upper rim; the panels of the sides are decorated with window tracery, while the corners habe pinnacled buttresses; the sides are cut at the bottom, which, together with the stumps that appear to be the capitals for the missing colonnettes, appears to indicate they would form and arcade overhung; the present pedestal base would not then be the original. The octagonal pyramidal wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.74225, 7.18725
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 32.1″ N, 7° 11′ 14.1″ E
UTM: 32U 374845 5733926
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]