Pommersfelden / Bumersfelden / Bummerschfelln

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 8 November 2014)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 19506POM
Church/Chapel: Kirche St. Maria und Johannes
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John
Church Location: Mühlweg 1, 96178 Pommersfelden, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9548 340
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located near the Schloss Weißenstein
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the altar
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
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;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
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]