Buttforde / Butaforda / Buteferde / Butefode / Butefoerde / Buthfoerde / Wittmund-Buttforde
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - pulpit - detail
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view of church interior - retable
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der Taufstein aus Granit stammt aus dem späten 12. Jahrhundert."
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19350BUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Dorfkirche St.-Marien
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Neudorfer Weg 1, Buttforde, 26409 Wittmund, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off the B210, near Harlebucht, in the municipality of Wittmund
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: possible wooden church here previous to the stone church of the early-13thC [ca. 1230?];
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kiesow (2010) as a plain granite baptismal font of the late-12th century. The entry for Buttforde in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/buttforde] [accessed 23 February 2022] notes and illustrates a granite tub vessel dated late-12th century ["Der Taufstein aus Granit stammt aus dem späten 12. Jahrhundert"]. An old holy-water stoup believed to be originally from this church was reported found in a local garden in the 1950s [NB: we have no information on its present whereabouts].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.621417, 7.725278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 17.1″ N, 7° 43′ 31″ E
UTM: 32U 415688 5942157
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Kiesow, Gottfried, Architekturführer Ostfriesland, Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, 2010