Babenhausen No. 1
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 9 January 2015)
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tobias Maier, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2012 by Tobias Maier [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_St_Andreas_Babenhausen_Schwaben.jpg] [accessed 16 January 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Mirtsch, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2008 by Thomas Mirtsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StAndreasBabenhausenHochaltar1.JPG] [accessed 16 January 2015]
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view of church interior - crucifix
Scene Description: early-16thC Crucifixion group; with Mary and John -- perhaps contemporary with the old font fragment?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Mirtsch, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2008 by Thomas Mirtsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StAndreasBabenhausenTreppenhausKreuzigung.JPG] [accessed 16 January 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: the old font re-constructed and partially wall-mounted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mogadir, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2012 by Mogadir [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Andreas_(Babenhausen)_04.JPG] [accessed 16 January 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in use, with the old font in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 9 January 2015)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 9 January 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19665BAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Andreas
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Marktplatz 5, 87727 Babenhausen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 8333 926990
Country Name: Germany
Location: Unterallgäu, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located 25 km NE of Memmingen, 40 km SE of Ulm
Historical Region: Grafschaft Fugger-Babenhausen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and fonts
Font Notes:
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A fragment of the basin of a baptismal font of the late-Gothic period; it is covered in trefoiled window tracery. It has now been partly re-built and wall-mounted. The present font in use is modern, consisting of a round moulded basin on a round pedestal base with a moulded lower base; in pinkish marble. Raised on a round-to-octagonal stone plinth. Metal cover, also modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.143582, 10.254642
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 8′ 36.89″ N, 10° 15′ 16.71″ E
UTM: 32U 593330 5333020
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining