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view of font - upper view
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view of font - northeast side
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view of basin - upper view
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view of basin - interior
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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
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design element - motifs - vine - stemming from a lion's mouth
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
Scene Description: a vine runs between the two
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design element - motifs - tree - 3
Scene Description: on the west side of the basin
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human figure - head - 3
Scene Description: with helmet-like haircuts, on the west side of the basin
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human figure - female - standing - with long braided hair
Scene Description: stands to the right of the man holding a horse by the bridle
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: a crowned and bearded head to the left of one of the floral motifs
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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
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human figure - male - head - bearded - crowned - 3
Scene Description: three of them seen here to the left of one of the floral motifs
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: seen here to the left and right of the human heads
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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
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view of basin - north side
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human figure - male - seated - riding horse or donkey - hand raised - accompanying female figure
Scene Description: non the northeast side of the basin
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view of basin - northeast side
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - west view
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information
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest end - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest end - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest end - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest end - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Muehlenbernd, 2013
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]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Torbenbrinker, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2009 by Torbenbrinker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeekLudgerusChurch1.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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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]
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view of church interior - pulpit
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font in context - northeast and north sides
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: with the old font in the centre of the aisle
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view of font in context - east side
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view of font in context - southwest side
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view of font in context - northwest side
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view of church interior - tombstone
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![photograph taken from just behind [west of] the Paschal candle and the font](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160211005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: photograph taken from just behind [west of] the Paschal candle and the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Torbenbrinker, 2009
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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 Statement: Image copyright © Münsterland Zeitung, 2009
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]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the four lions of the base
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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
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20174HEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2017-09-29
Font Date: ca. 1230?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Ludgerus
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [2005+ ]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Liudger [aka Ludger, Ludgerus, 9thC bishop of Münster]
Church Address: Kirchenplatz 8, 48619 Heek, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2568 9359180
Site Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
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 Notes:
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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
UTM: 32U 369890 5775718
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.116667, 7.099722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 0″ N, 7° 5′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 72, 74, 177
- 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; p. 173
- Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914, Kreis Ahaus, p. 38