Damme nr. Vechta

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2014 by Wolfram, in [wwww.holidaycheck.de/prd/kath-pfarrkirche-st-viktor-st-viktor-der-dammer-dom/5ef7bde6-b5ab-3b85-a966-9d1458ed27ae] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid -

Scene Description: now at the upper rim, but not originally [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - vine

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design element - motifs - vine

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Bin im Garten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Viktor_Kirche_in_Damme_2010_PD_026.JPG] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with a modern stone font at the far [east] end, by the left [north] pillar of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Bin im Garten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Viktor_Kirche_in_Damme_2010_PD_050.JPG] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the metal font at the far [west] end of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Bin im Garten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Viktor_Kirche_in_Damme_2010_PD_062.JPG] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the metal font [stoup?] at the west end of the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2010 by Bin im Garten [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Viktor_Kirche_in_Damme_2010_PD_053.JPG] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20166DAM

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Viktor / Dammer Dom

Church Patron Saints: St. Victor [aka St. Viktor of Xanten]

Church Location: Kirchplatz 15, 49401 Damme, Germany -- Tel.: 05491 / 90 89 00

Country Name: Germany

Location: Vechta, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located at the L851-L853-L846 crossroads, 25 km S of Vechta, 36 km NNE of Osnabrück

Ecclesiastic Region: [orig. in the Diözese Osnabrück; later in Münster]

Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Type Sögel I, Sögel [Drake]

Church Notes: church here first founded 8thC; Gothic church of 1435; demolished 1903 (except for Romanesque tower); present building 1904-1905;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kuns... (1896-1909). Noted in Ligtenberg (1915). Baptismal font of classed in Drake (2002) as "Bentheim School; Type Sögel I, Sögel", which includes fonts at Damme, Greetsiel, Grimersum, Kantens, Rijsen, Sleen, Sögel, Thuine and Uphusen. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a double-rope moulding or braid at the upper rim, a vine, a second double-rope or braid, and a second vine; as usual in these Bentheim designs the upper vine is more geometric, the lower more natural, with palmettes; The proportions of the basin look odd; it is two short for its type; the explanation is likely that it has lost the original upper in the restoration; it is raised on a round-to-square pedestal base characteristic of the type, with a roll moulding atop and four couchant-regardant lions at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. No font cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.520889, 8.197878

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 15.2″ N, 8° 11′ 52.36″ E

UTM: 32U 445576 5819278

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; r["References"]