Berum
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20216BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font2, fragment?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: coordinates given are for Burg Berum
Site Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road K204, in the municipality of Hage / Hague, just E of its twon centre
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 32U 387330 5940522
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.6014, 7.2973
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 36′ 5.04″ N, 7° 17′ 50.28″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 178