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Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek
[http://kath-kirche-emstek.de/sakrament/] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek
[http://kath-kirche-emstek.de/sakrament/] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with palmettes and fruit bunches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek
[http://kath-kirche-emstek.de/sakrament/] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek
[http://kath-kirche-emstek.de/sakrament/] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles of the central shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Margaretha Emstek
[http://kath-kirche-emstek.de/sakrament/] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dirk urbansky, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2011 by Dirk urbansky [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte_Marguerite_à_Emstek_en_2011.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Exstudent03, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2013 by Exstudent03 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orgel_St._Margaretha.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20368EMS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, 3. Berge. a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Margaretha
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Notes: early church here probably 9thC; first documented mid-13thC; remained a chapel of ease to Vechta until 1814
Church Address: Clemens-August-Straße 1, 49685 Emstek, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4473 341
Site Location: Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the E233, 8 km E of Cloppenburg, 15 km NE of Vechta
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Historical Region: Oldenburger Münsterland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was there a font as early as the 9thC here?)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kunsdenk[...] Oldenburg (1896-1909). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). Classed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bentheim School, "3. Berge. a. Type I" (fonts at Ankum I, Arle, Berge, Borghorst, Emlichheim, Emstek, Gescher, Haselünne, Hattem, Jellum, Lastrup, Metelen, Münster Museum, Norg I, Ochtelbur, Ramsdorf, Recke, Toornwerd, Vries and Zweelo). The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with (top down) a double rope moulding or braid, a vine with palmettes and fruit bunches, another double rope moulding of braid, and a band of fan-frieze pattern; raised on a round-to-square pedestal base with a roll moulding atop and four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degree angles of the broad central shaft. There is no font cover present but a copper (?) baptismal dish is in use.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 442715 5852215
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.816667, 8.15
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 49′ 0″ N, 8° 9′ 0″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909, Heft III, Amt Cloppenburg: 83, Abb. 20
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 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. 174