Drensteinfurt / Dreisteinfurt / Stewwert
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Image Source: illustration in Roosval (1918)
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design element - motifs - vine
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Image Source: illustration in Roosval (1918)
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design element - patterns - fluted
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Image Source: illustration in Roosval (1918)
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stahlkocher, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2006 by Stahlkocher [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drensteinfurt_Pfarrkirche_St_Regina2.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stahlkocher, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2006 by Stahlkocher [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drensteinfurt_Pfarrkirche_St_Regina.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2014]
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view of church interior - east end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2008 by Sebastian Netzmeister [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StRegina_Altarraum.JPG] [accessed 5 September 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19406DRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Regina Drensteinfurt
Font Location in Church: Font now located inside the church, in the presbitery, by the altar [formerly in an alcove at the W end of the nave]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: fortified manor church originally ca. 1170; re-built in 1785 and made parochial; expanded ca. 1890 into a two-aisle church; restored in 2007-2008
Church Address: Kirchplatz 4, 48317 Drensteinfurt, Germany
Site Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located WNW of Ahlen, SSE of Münster; St-Regina is located in the old town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: moved fon t (from the west end of the church to the east, near the altar)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone noted and illustrated in Roosval (1918) [NB: Roosval spells the name "Dreisteinfurt"]. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin, slightly tapering in towards the bottom; there is a band of vine decoration below the upper rim, the sides proper with a fluted pattern all around; raised on a low moulded lower base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 413251 5739312
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.797931, 7.742008
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 52.55″ N, 7° 44′ 31.23″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918, p. [39], Abt. 61