Xanten / Santen

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Results: 10 records

design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2016)

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on each of the eight panels of the basin and underbowl

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xanten_StViktor_von_N.JPG] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2016)

view of church exterior - west façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xanten_Germany_Xanten-Cathedral-01a.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the church towers are visible behind the city gate

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2016)

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the main altar, in bronze -- Source caption: "Hochaltar und Schmiedewerk Aert von Tricht"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rainer Halama, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2011 by Rainer Halama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xanten-Dom106861-b.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2016 by Rotesdiadem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altar_im_Dom_Xanten.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken October 1969 by the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_het_oosten_-_Xanten_-_20384674_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Traumpfade der Welt, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph in Traumpfade der Welt [www.traumpfade-der-welt.de/images/tdw_images/gr_12977_9.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the Renaissance (?) font is partially visible in the centre of the image, at the foot of the tall candelabra

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sven Seiler, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2006 by Sven Seiler [www.flickr.com/photos/lecasio/334603537] [accessed 10 August 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20699XAN
Church/Chapel: Xantener katholische Dom / St.-Viktor-Dom
Church Patron Saints: St. Viktor of Xanten
Church Location: Kapitel 8, 46509 Xanten, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2801 71310
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located S or Reel, S of Wesel, 60 km from Düsseldorf
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Düsseldorf
Font Location in Church: inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church Carolingian, ca. 752; re-built early 9thC; destroyed by Normans 863; re-built 967; damaged by fire and re-built 11th and 12thC as the Stiftskirche St. Viktor [collegiate church]; present building started 1263, completed 1544
Baptismal font of stone consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a pedestal base; below a moulded upper rim the sides are decorated with tracery patterns. There is also a modern font in use.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6622, 6.4539
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 43.92″ N, 6° 27′ 14.04″ E
UTM: 32U 323910 5726538

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal