Oldorf
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animal - mammal - sejant-gardant - 3
Scene Description: seen here on the left and front cookie-cutter type set at 90-degree angles of the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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design element - architectural - buttress or column
Scene Description: seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a very thick one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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inscription
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Scene Description: [cf. Inscription and FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: with the detached bell tower re-built in 1912 at the southeast end of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the gap between the main church building and the re-built tower is clearly noticeable here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the retable originally ca. 1500; restored and re-built in 1945
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-altar.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank W. Rudolph, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2012 by Frank W. Rudolph [www.f-rudolph.info/images/oldorf-st-marienkirche---klein.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank W. Rudolph, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 June 2012 by Frank W. Rudolph [www.f-rudolph.info/images/oldorf-st-marienkirche---klein.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20372OLD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelish-lutherische Kirche St. Marien
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: [contact]: Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Tettens, Schmiedstraße 7, 26434 Wangerland, Germany -- Tel.: 04463 444
Country Name: Germany
Location: Friesland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located on the K87, 10 km S of the North Sea coast, 16 km NW of Wilhelmshaven, in Wangerland
Historical Region: Wangerland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, centre aisle
Date: 1398
Century and Period: 14th century (late), Gothic
Church Notes: original church 13thC; expanded ca. 1500; renovated late-18thC; tower re-built 1912
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Die Bau- und Kunsdenk[...] Oldenburg (1896-1909). Listed in Ligtenberg (1915). Described and illustrated in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]: baptismal font of Weser sandstone consisting of a round basin with a protruding rim moulding and an inscription below "in tief eingeschlagener gotischer Kleinschrift" with the text: "int jaer uns hen mcccxcviii was herr Meine K.h."; thick roll moulding atop a cruciform base in which one arm is a pillar or buttress, while the other three have cookie-cutter like seated gardant lions; the four arms of this cross are set at 90-degree angles; the circular lower base is patly buried in the present flooring. There is no font cover present and a metal baptismal dish is being used atop the basin now for baptisms.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.635278, 7.923611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 38′ 7″ N, 7° 55′ 25″ E
UTM: 32U 428829 5943482
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "int jaer uns hen mcccxcviii was herr Meine K.h."
Inscription Source: Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Tettens [www.kirche-tettens.de/oldorf/die-st-marienkirche/der-taufstein.html] [accessed 21 February 2016]
REFERENCES
Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogtums Oldenburg (5 Heften), München: MDZ, 1896-1909
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