Asbeck

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: very large, without real supports, although there is a minimal stump below each of the imposts

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: inside each large carved arch-head is a set of three (?) tiny incised arch-heads, also round

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the larger arch-heads

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

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design element - patterns - scalloped

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design element - patterns - scalloped

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20328ASB
Church/Chapel: Stiftskirche St. Margareta
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: An der Kirche 5, 48739 Legden, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2566 1612
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münsterland, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located at the crossroads of the K43, K61. K29, K32, K28, E of highway 31, WNW of Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early Gothic
Church Notes: original 2-bay nave 12thC; transept and chancel 13thC; restored ca. 1970; Gothic wall paintings
Baptismal font of stone roughly cylindrical, with the upper side slightly broader and decorated with an acanthus vine; the sides have a set of broad round arch-heads with imposts that appear to have a stump below, not clear whether intended as capitals or tops of columns; inside each broad carved arch-head is a set [three?] of incised plain round arch-heads; a row of scalloped pattern decorates the underbowl; the stem is cylindrical and plain; the lower base is circular and splaying, with a scalloped pattern on it. Font cover of conical shape with large fleuron (?) finial and two levels of inscriptions, at middle and bottom.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.054005, 7.143769
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 14.42″ N, 7° 8′ 37.57″ E
UTM: 32U 372728 5768671