Sudkirchen / Südkirchen / Süüdkiärken
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
Scene Description: with a vine between them
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: includes palmettes and other motifs
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human figure - head - wearing headdress
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "Nordkirchen Baudenkmal 25 St. Pankratius Suedkirchen" -- the old St. Pankratius church; the base of the tower is 12thC [NB: the font is no longer in this building; it has been moved to the mid-201thC Neue Pfarrkirche Südkirchen]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230826003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nordkirchen Baudenkmal 25 St. Pankratius Suedkirchen" -- the old St. Pankratius church; the base of the tower is 12thC [NB: the font is no longer in this building; it has been moved to the mid-201thC Neue Pfarrkirche Südkirchen]
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in A. Ludorff (1893: 98)
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nordkirchen Baudenkmal 25 St. Pankratius Suedkirchen - innen" -- showing the medieval font in the new church
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20179SUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius
Church Patron Saints: St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Location: Oberstraße 3, 59394 Südkirchen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2596 / 972918 – 200
Country Name: Germany
Location: Coesfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located at the crossroads L810-K6, in the municipality of Nordkirchen, SSW of Münster
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the Neue Pfarrkirche Südkirchen of the mid-20thC
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Church Notes: parish founded 1022-1023; Romanesque tower base ca.1100; church extended 1690s consecrated 1701; renovated 1960s
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Ludorf (1873 and 1914). In Ligtenberg (1915). 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. The site Im Ortsteil Südkirchen mit Übersichtsplan - Heimatverein... [www.heimatverein-gemeinde-nordkirchen.de/Dorffuehrer/Dorffuehrer 4 Suedkirchen.htm [accessed 13 February 2016] conforms that the old Bentheim font, originally from the Alte Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius, is now located inside the Neue Pfarrkirche St. Pankratius, a building of the mid-20th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.710601, 7.546936
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 38.17″ N, 7° 32′ 48.97″ E
UTM: 32U 399607 5729851
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ludorff (1893: 98)
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; p. 173
Ludorf, L., Die Bau- und Kunftdenkmäler von Westfalen, Paderborn: Komissions Verlag Von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1914