Altenoythe / Ogitidi / Oidi / Oldenoythe / Oldeoyte / Oyta / Oyte

Noted and illustrated in Theodor Rohjans' St. Vitus Altenoythe page (8 March 2014) [http://theos-seite.de/?cat=109] [accessed 20 February 2016] as a baptismal font discarded from Old Sy Vitus church when it was re-built in 1778; the font, informs this source, ended up semi-buried in the parish garden, where it was still in 1903; it was later (?) moved to the Museumsdorf in Cloppenburg; in 1974 it was installed in the newly-built Katholische Dreifaltigkeitskirche, in Altenoythe; the font is described as being made from a block of granite. Described and illustrated cf. supra] in Drake (2002): Finally, at Altenoythe [...] there is a granite font of the same basin shape as the early Bentheim products like Herzlake, with the lower part reduced in diameter. There is no ornament or artiiculation other than two very rudimentary roll mouldings encircling the lower part" [NB: the text entry in Drake gives a reference to plate 188, but plate 188 is captioned "Altentreptow", another font listed in Drake; the illustration, however, shows a font of granite, indeed very like Altenoythe]. The font appears monolithic indeed, a plain roughly cylindrical basin on a lower base that appears polygonal at the bottom, but very irregular; it has a crude moulding between the two sections.