Nonnweiler
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cmcmcm1, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2013 by Cmcmcm1 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nonnweiler,_St._Hubertus_(6).JPG] [accessed 1 February 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cmcmcm1, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2013 by Cmcmcm1 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nonnweiler,_St._Hubertus.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2015]
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design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: long scrolls that reach from the underbowl all the way to the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 January 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19696NON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Hubertus [aka Hochwalddom], Nonnweiler
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hubert of Liège
[aka Hubertus]
Church Notes: original church perhaps 9thC; old church burned down 1984; present church built 1900-1902
Church Address: Matzenberg 1, 66620 Nonnweiler, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6875 229
Site Location: Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L147, E of Hwy. 1, 20 km NW of Sankt Wendel, 30 km SE of Trier
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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Chalice-shaped stone baptismal font of the 16th century; it cosnists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a deply-carved tibbed pattern all around; raised on a round pedestal with tapering sides decorated with buttresses. No cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 351923 5498030
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.616667, 6.95
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 37′ 0″ N, 6° 57′ 0″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining