Pommersfelden / Bumersfelden / Bummerschfelln
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 November 2014)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 November 2014)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 November 2014)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evang. Kirchengemeinden Steppach - Pommersfelden - Limbach, 2014
Image Source: photograph in [www.evangelisch-limbach.de/kirchen.php#Pommersfelden] [accessed 16 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 November 2014)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19506POM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Kirche St. Maria und Johannes Pommersfelden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the altar
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. John
Church Notes: original chapel here known by 1349; replacement church built here ca. 1442; destroyed in the Thirty Years War; re-built 1687; replaced 1750;
Church Address: Mühlweg 1, 96178 Pommersfelden, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9548 340
Site Location: Oberfranken, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located E of th St2263, abot 22 km SSW of Bamberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg
Additional Comments: painted font (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a shallow octagonal basin raised of an octagonal pedestal base. The font is painted in two tones of blue with gold mouldings. The cover is a low dome, also painted. [NB: wer have no information on the font of the original 14th-century chapel here.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 630821 5514272
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th century?
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]