Heek

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the broad shaft of the base; three of them visible here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: seen here to the left and right of the human heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: seen here in the centre of the image, to the right of the man with a horse and the woman with braided hair; two human heads separated by columns on the right of the image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in the 14 September 2009 edition of the Münsterland Zeitung [www.muensterlandzeitung.de/staedte/heek/Ludgerus-Kirche-interessiert;art963,670371] [accessed 11 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

Scene Description: a vine runs between the two

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - tree - 3

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - stemming from a lion's mouth

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

design element - patterns - fan-frieze

Scene Description: partly on the east side, and all over the lower end of the south side, as seen here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

human figure - female - standing - with long braided hair

Scene Description: stands to the right of the man holding a horse by the bridle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

human figure - head - 3

Scene Description: with helmet-like haircuts, on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded - crowned - 3

Scene Description: three of them seen here to the left of one of the floral motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

human figure - male - seated - riding horse or donkey - hand raised - accompanying female figure

Scene Description: non the northeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the four lions of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a crowned and bearded head to the left of one of the floral motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - north side - detail

Scene Description: one of the male crowned and bearded heads, this one next to the floral motif on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2009 by Torbenbrinker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeekLudgerusChurch1.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2013 by Muehlenbernd [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Katholische_Pfarrkirche_in_Heek.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2013 by Muehlenbernd [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Katholische_Pfarrkirche_in_Heek.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: photograph taken from just behind [west of] the Paschal candle and the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2009 by Torbenbrinker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeekLudgerusChurch2.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - west end

Scene Description: with the old font in the centre of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave -- Source caption: "Die Besucher verfolgten gespannt die Erläuterungen von Diakon Harald Schneider zu besonderen Kirchenschätzen wie dem alten Taufbecken. Die Führungen durch den Kirchenraum mit Turmbesteigung und Blick auf das Kirchengewölbe fanden großes Interesse."

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northeast and north sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 20174HEE

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Ludgerus

Church Patron Saints: St. Liudger [aka Ludger, Ludgerus, 9thC bishop of Münster]

Church Location: Kirchenplatz 8, 48619 Heek, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2568 9359180

Country Name: Germany

Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A31, SE of Enschede, NNW of Münster, near Metelen and Ochtrup, both with medieval fonts

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [2005+ ]

Date: ca. 1230?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Medieval baptismal font listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Berge b. Type II", a group of fonts that includes those at Alfhausen, Badbergen, Bippen, Borken, Heek, Lathen, Nordherringen, Salzbergen, Schapen, Schepsdorf, Südkirchen, Utrecht (Katharinenkonvent), Weerselo, Wettringen and Wissel. Drake (ibid.) further observes that in "the bottom register on the font at Heek is a scene in which a man holds a horse or donkey by the head, while a woman stands beside him and the right is a large multipetalled flower or perhaps a star. This scene, for which there seems no ready explanation, is the only decoration on a Bentheim font remotely to aproach narrative and is unique on fonts of this School. Heek has the unique feature of the tendril in the main band of decoration issuing from an animal mask. Interrupting the fan frieze are a plain rosette, three heads then three trees." Noted with date ca. 1230 and illustrated in the Bistum Münster Kirchensite [http://kirchensite.de/index.php?myELEMENT=87890] [accessed 11 February 2016]. The font appears on an undated postcard [cf. Images area] located at the east end, in the chancel, to the north of the altar; the altar is facing the community, which means it is post-Vatican II (1962-1965). The font appears in a 2005 photograph at the end of the nave, central aisle [NB: the central aisle did not exist at the time of the above postcard image]. On-site visit: the font is located at the west end of the nave, in the centre aisle;with the exception of the upper rim of the basin, which has been repaired in various spots, the font is in good shape; it is now covered with a shallow glass top.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.116667, 7.099722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 7′ 0″ N, 7° 5′ 59″ E

UTM: 32U 369890 5775718

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9-11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 95-96 cm

Basin Depth: 36-45 cm [45 cm at centre]

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Height of Base: 44 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

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"]

Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914