Metelen / Maideln

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Image copyright © Katholische Kirche Metelen SS. Cornelius und Cyprianus, 2016

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Results: 8 records

animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alte Ansichtskarten, 2016
Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alte Ansichtskarten, 2016
Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

Scene Description: above and below the band of vine
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Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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design element - motifs - vine

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alte Ansichtskarten, 2016
Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alte Ansichtskarten, 2016
Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2007 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metelen,_kerk_foto2_2007-04-12_13.22.JPG] [accessed 11 February 2016]
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view of font

Scene Description: after the restoration of both church and font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirche Metelen SS. Cornelius und Cyprianus, 2016
Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Katholische Kirche Metelen SS. Cornelius und Cyprianus [www.katholische-kirche-metelen.de/Geschichte/Kirchenausstattung/kirchenausstattung.html] [accessed 11 February 2016]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: before the font and the church itself were heavily restored
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alte Ansichtskarten, 2016
Image Source: undated B&W postcard [www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/shop/ak/63/6372299/AK-Metelen-Pfarrkirche-Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2018]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 20355MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius und Cyprian [former collegiate church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Cornelius & St. Cyprian
Church Location: Pastorat 4, 48629 Metelen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2556 98817
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münsterland, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the L582, NW of Münster, near Heek and Ochtrup, both with medieval fonts
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]
Church Notes: present church started 12thC, completed late-13thC; remodelled 1850s; renovated 1957-1961;
Font Notes:
Noted in Ludorf (1914) and Ligtenberg (1915). Drake (2002) mentions that the stone of the Metelen font, which he classes as 'Bergen. a. Type I', "is not yet established". The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with (top down) a double rope moulding or braid, a vibe, a second moulding similar to the first, and a band of fan-frieze pattern below; round-to-square base with roll moulding atop and four couchant-regardant lions at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. The font had much damage around the upper rim, and was later repaired without an attempt at reconstructing the detail of the missing chunks. A 2005 photograph of this font in the Katholische Kirche Metelen SS. Cornelius und Cyprianus [www.katholische-kirche-metelen.de/Geschichte/Kirchenausstattung/kirchenausstattung.html] [accessed 11 February 2016] shows the font totally cleaned and restored; the flooring has been raised around it but the font itselfs appears to rest on the original floor.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.144918, 7.212835
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 41.71″ N, 7° 12′ 46.21″ E
UTM: 32U 377712 5778663

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (type not yet established)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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