Wustrow
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
Results: 10 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals
Scene Description: the highly stylised design of the later Gotland mass-produced fonts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: alternating 3- and 4-petal motifs all around the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Klugschnacker, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2008 by Klugschnacker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Wustrow_(2008-05-01).JPG] [accessed 8 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Uwe Barghaan, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2007 by Uwe Barghaan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wustrow_Kirche_0.jpg] [accessed 8 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship
Scene Description: one of two 19th-century (?) ships inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: the top of the Gotic font and the neo-Gothic altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 September 2007 by Schiwago [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wustrow_Kirche_Altar.jpg] [accessed 8 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font; a style popular in this area of Germany
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
view of font
Scene Description: the Gothic font of Gotland limestone
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
view of font in context
Scene Description: both fonts; in the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 July 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19342WUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Wustrow
Church Location: Hafenstraße 2, 18347 Wustrow, Germany -- Tel.: 038220-338
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Darß/Fischland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font?
Cognate Fonts: many such exported from Gotland
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: said to have been originally a pagan wooden temple to Swantewit; 13thC stone church demolished in 1869; replaced by present church in 1873;
Font Notes:
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There are two baptismal fonts in this church: a modern one, a popular design in this area of Germany, and an old one; the old font is a good example of the mass-produced limestone fonts of the island of Gotland; this one is one of the later designs, a hemispherical basin decorated with a stylised arcade of trefoiled arches, the spandrels filled with 3- and 4-petal floral motifs; a roll moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; raised on a plain splaying circular pedestal base, made of three blocks. The font appears to have been painted, and the hues around the upper rim may have been caused by a metal reinforcement band tied around it at some time in the past.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.344833, 12.396694
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 20' 41.4" N, 12° 23' 48.1" E
UTM: 33U 330787 6025014
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round