Metelen / Maideln
Image copyright © Katholische Kirche Metelen SS. Cornelius und Cyprianus, 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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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
Scene Description: above and below the band of 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 - 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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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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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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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20355MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius und Cyprian [former collegiate church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cornelius & St. Cyprian
Church Notes: present church started 12thC, completed late-13thC; remodelled 1850s; renovated 1957-1961;
Church Address: Pastorat 4, 48629 Metelen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2556 98817
Site Location: Münsterland, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the L582, NW of Münster, near Heek and Ochtrup, both with medieval fonts
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 32U 377712 5778663
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.144918, 7.212835
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 41.71″ N, 7° 12′ 46.21″ E
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, p. 71, 177
- 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, Kreis Steinfurt, p. 117