Cappeln / Kappeln

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles of the central shaft

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: between the two mouldings

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the new [1902] church that replaced the medieval church demolished in 1900

Image Source: in the digital photograph in the Gemeinde Cappeln (Oldenburg) site [www.cappeln.de/kultur_bildung/kirchen_und_religioese_gemeinschaften.php] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the old font and its modern cover are visible here at the east end of the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2011 by Cec-clp [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cappeln-Kirche-1.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the damaged moulding atop the base

Image Source: edited digital photograph in the Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Peter u. Paul [www.kath-kirche-cappeln.de/images/taufbrunnen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20367CAP

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Peter und St. Paul [new church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Große Str. 13, 49692 Cappeln (Oldenburg), Germany -- Tel.: +49 4478 225

Country Name: Germany

Location: Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off Bundesstraße B72 (E233) and Bundesautobahn A1 (E37), 5 km SE of Cloppenburg, 10 km NW of Bakum

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster [formerly in Bistum Osnabrück?]

Historical Region: Oldenburger Münsterland

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, E end of the N aisle

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage A.a. Type I [Drake]

Church Notes: church here documented by 1159; demolished 1900; new church inaugurated 1902

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noticed and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kunsdenk[...] Oldenburg (1896-1909). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). Classed as a font of the "Bentheim School, Hage. a. Type I" in Drake (2002), who uses spelling 'Kappeln'. Baptismal font consisting of a slightly tapering round basin decorated with a vine between two mouldings, and a band of fan-frieze below; the usual round-to-square base with a roll moulding [damaged] atop, and four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degrees of the broad central shaft below. Modern cover. The old font, bells and a few other objects were retained from the medieval church demolished in 1900. The font and its modern cover are located now in the new church, at the east end of the north aisle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.812222, 8.114444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 48′ 44″ N, 8° 6′ 52″ E

UTM: 32U 440313 5851750

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909

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; r["References"]