Wermelskirchen

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Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner

Scene Description: not haloed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © pillboxs, 2007

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animal - bird - dove - drinking from chalice or baptismal font

Scene Description: between the head and the Agnus Dei

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

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animal - mammal - lion - bi-corporate

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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2015 by Uwe Barghaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wermelskirchen_Stadtkirche_Taufstein_2015.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one missing probably since mid-18thC [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WKirchen_evKirche_v_SO.jpg] [accessed 10 February 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Wermelskirchen, Deutschland. Evangelische Stadtkirche, romanischer Turm (1180-1230) mit barockem Turmhelm (1765)."

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20353WER
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadtkirche Hauptpfarrkirche Wermelskirchen
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Markt 5, 42929 Wermelskirchen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rheinisch-Bergische, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located SE of Remscheid
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1180? [basin only]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font, Group 2b [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: church dedicated to St. Bartholomew consecrated ca. 1300 replaced an earlier 11th-12rhC church here; expanded and altered 18th, 19thC;
Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font of the round-bowl on multisupport group 2b, a large group to which well-known fonts such as Gerpinnes, Herpen, Laon, Nouvion-sur-Meuse, St-Severin-en-Condroz, and many others belong: "Among the trachyte fonts, but neither 'suspended', nor a cylinder, is Wermelskirchen. It is in fact like Herkenrath, a typical Namur font on five supports with decorated panels between the salient heads, including a dragon, a winged dragon, a pair of lions' bodies sharing a single head, and the Lamb and flag. Being made of local stone but in the Namur style, it is perhaps the work of an itinerant mason." [NB: in addition to the items mentioned in Drake above, the side with the Agnus Dei has also a dove (?) drinking from a vessel that looks like a baptismal font]. An article in the RGA [RemscheiderGeneral-Anzeiger [www.rga.de/lokales/wermelskirchen/schatten-licht-4191838.html] [accessed 10 February 2016] informs that the font here was probably discarded after being damaged in a 1756 fire in which the roof collapsed onto the nave; the surviving basin, one of the heads missing, was relegated to the garden of the Schumacher family; an offer was made in 1932 by Dr. Friedrich Schumacher to return the font to the church but the offer went ignored; the font was eventually restored by Wolf Münninghoff in 2001 using Namur stone for the base, although the basin itself is made of trachyte from the nearby Siebengebirge quarries, as identified by Dr. Hans-Gerd Schöneweiß, who suggested a date of 1180 for the font, the same as the date of the lower part of the tower.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.140056, 7.217694
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 24.2″ N, 7° 13′ 3.7″ E
UTM: 32U 375317 5666910

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, trachyte
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm

REFERENCES

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