Goldenstedt

Die Bau- und Kunsdenk[...] Oldenburg (1896-1909) notes and illustrates a font of the Bentheim type in Goldenstedt. Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). A font from Goldenstedt is reported "on a farm" in Drake (2002), who classes it as a Bentheim School font of the group "6. Larrelt", which includes fonts from the Deutsches Museum in Berlin, Blersum, Borssum, Brummen, Dorkwerd, Goldenstedt, Larrelt, Manslagt and Peize. The Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Gorgonius Goldenstedt [www.gorgonius.de/st-gorgonius-goldenstedt.html] [accessed 20 February 2016] notes that a Romanesque font from the old church was among the objects brought into the newly-built church of 1908, but got lost [="ein romanischer Taufstein, der aber verloren ging"]. Without an image of the font itself, but following the type as given in Drake above, the font would consists of a slightly tapering round basin decorated with (top down) a moulding, a vine with some geometric elements, another moulding, a vine, another moulding and a band of fan-frieze around the bottom side; raised on the usual 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; in the spaces between the lions four colonnettes attached to the central shaft.