Gimbte / Gimbde / Gimpte / Greven-Gimbte
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font and cover prior to its 2014 restoration and that of the baptistery window
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Image Source: undated photograph w/o author or source accessible [URL masked or hidden] in [http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/26131570.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columnns
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of basin - upper view - detail
Scene Description: the baptismal dish in use
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI
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view of basin - upper view
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: blocked now
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2017 by BSI
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - north portal - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: blocked now
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view of church exterior - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greven_Gimbte_-_Alter_Fährweg_-_St._Johannes_Baptist_01_ies.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greven_Gimbte_-_Alter_Fährweg_%2B_St._Johannes_Baptist_02_ies.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: view into the narthex and the font
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in its alcove in the narthex; view from the main entranceway
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greven_Gimbte_-_Alter_Fährweg_-_St._Johannes_Baptist_in_23_ies.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greven_Gimbte_-_Alter_Fährweg_-_St._Johannes_Baptist_in_01_ies.jpg] [accessed 9 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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information
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Image Source: field notes taken 29 September 2017 by BSI
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20348GIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2017-09-29
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A2 [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist / Johannes-der-Täufer-Kirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the narthex, beneath the W tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church here documented by 1040; tower 12thC;
Church Address: Alten Fährweg / Dorfstraße 49, Gimbte, 48268 Greven, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2571 4466
Site Location: Münsterland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Gimbte is located off (E) Hwy 1, in the municipality and 5-6 km SSE of Greven, about 15 km N of Münster -- it was incorporated in Greven in 1975: "ein Ortsteil der Stadt Greven"
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: altered font / damaged font / restored font / re-tooled
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Ludorf (1914). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). In Drake (2002) as a Bentheim font of the Group A2, the 'modified cylinder', a group in which this author includes the fonts at Bersenbrück, Büttel, Emsbüren, Enschede, Epe, Ermelo, Gimpte, Herzlake, Holtland, Ochtrup, Ostönnen, Otterloo, Ueffeln. The basin is roughly cylindrical, with a broad double-rope moulding or braid followed down by an arcade of blind round arches on short plain columns, and a single rope moulding below; the upper rim of the basin has several holes drilled in it, probably for anchorings of an old font cover; on a circular pedestal base with mouldings at top and bottom. No cover present. An article by Peter Beckmann in the 18 July 2014 issue of the Westfälische Nachrichten [www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Steinfurt/Greven/1657563-Taufkapelle-in-Gimbte-neu-gestaltet-Man-haelt-foermlich-die-Luft-an] [accessed 9 February 2016] informs on the recent restoration of the font and its installation in the renovated baptismal chapel of this church. The font apparently had a cover prior to this restoration [cf. Images area]. On-site notes: the inner basin has a non-removable glass and metal insert now; the exterior appears to have been drastically re-tooled. The baptismal font in Gimbte is partially illustrated in a Wikipedia digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greven_Gimbte_-_Alter_Fährweg_-_St._Johannes_Baptist_in_23_ies.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2025]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 407030 5768632
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.060472, 7.643889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 37.7″ N, 7° 38′ 38″ 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: modern glass and metal lining
Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 91-92 cm
Basin Depth: 35-36 cm [with added (?) extension of 15 cm]
Basin Total Height: 46-47 cm
Height of Base: 45-46 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 92-93 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: round at bottom then octagonal with two levels, with cross finial; no longer in use after 2014
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 73
- 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, Taf. 40