Berum

INFORMATION

FontID: 20216BER
Church Location: coordinates given are for Burg Berum
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road K204, in the municipality of Hage / Hague, just E of its twon centre
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Drake (2002) lists a font at Roden in group Hage A.a. Type I, of the Bentheim School [listed in this group are the fints at: Berum (F[ragment]), Forlitz-Baukirchen, Hage, Kappeln, Keitum, Ohne, Roden, Westochtersum and Wesuwe) [NB: there appears to be no church or chapel in Berum; was the fragment of the font cited in Drake originally from the castle [Burg Berum]?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.6014, 7.2973
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 36′ 5.04″ N, 7° 17′ 50.28″ E
UTM: 32U 387330 5940522

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

REFERENCES

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