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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

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

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

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - double rope moulding or braid - 2

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: with palmettes and fruit bunches

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view of church exterior - west view

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

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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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20368EMS

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Margaretha

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Clemens-August-Straße 1, 49685 Emstek, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4473 341

Country Name: Germany

Location: Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Cloppenburg, 15 km NE of Vechta

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Historical Region: Oldenburger Münsterland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, 3. Berge. a. Type I [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: early church here probably 9thC; first documented mid-13thC; remained a chapel of ease to Vechta until 1814

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.816667, 8.15

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 49′ 0″ N, 8° 9′ 0″ E

UTM: 32U 442715 5852215

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

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"]