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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sönke Rahn, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 November 2011 by Sönke Rahn [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Adelby_(Flensburg).JPG] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: ca. 1830
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N. Simonsen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by N. Simonsen [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard-Wagner-Straße_51-55,_Flensburg.jpg] [accessed 1 July 2014]
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view of font
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Image Source: illustration in Haupt (1888)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19320FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche St. Johannes / Johanniskirche / Adelbyer Kirche / Kirche St. Johannis zu Adelby
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Johanniskirchhof 22, 24937 Flensburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the K28, at the SW end of the Flensburger Förde, 86 km NW of Kiel. Adelby is the core of Flensburg old town
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten?
Cognate Fonts: many such others
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Haupt (1888): "Taufstein [...] frühgotisch Gotländer Kalkstein, ein Pokal, wie der Petersdorfer". Baptismal font of Gotland limestone in the characteristic design: hemispherical basin with pointed ribbed pattern all around the sides and underbowl; on a conical pdestal base with roll moulding at the centre ring position, splaying lower base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.783583, 9.440889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 47′ 0.9″ N, 9° 26′ 27.2″ E
UTM: 32U 528355 6070798
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Haupt, Richard, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein mit Ausnahme des Kreises Herzogtum Lauenburg 2, Kiel: Ernst Homann, 1888