St. Wendel

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 February 2015)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sebastian Decker, Messdiener Winterbach, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2013 by Sebastian Decker, Messdiener Winterbach [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Wendel_03.jpg] [accessed 1 Fabruary 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
view of church interior - choir - detail
view of church interior - monument
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 19697WEN
Church/Chapel: Wendalinusbasilika / Wendelsdom
Church Patron Saints: St. Wendelin of Trier
Church Location: Fruchtmarkt 19, 66606 Sankt Wendel, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6851 939700
Country Name: Germany
Location: Sankt Wendel, Saarland
Directions to Site: Located 36 km NE of Saarbrücken
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Trier
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: original church here 9th-10thC; next church 14th-15thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font in this church is an oval marble font of the 18th century brough acquired in 1795 from the abbey of Tholey. Its cover is modern, 20th-century. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original church of the 9th-10th century here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
49.46795,
7.17095
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 28′ 4.62″ N,
7° 10′ 15.42″ E
UTM: 32U 367480 5481086