Griethausen
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2016 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2007 by MiraculixHB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_martin_griethausen.JPG?uselang=dd] [accessed 10 August 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20702GRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Kirche St. Martinus
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: original church late-14thC, expanded 15hC; renovated mid-19thC
Church Address: Oberstraße 71, 47533 Kleve, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2821 719130100
Site Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the 220n, on the S shore of the Kellener Altrhein, in the municipality and 4-5 km NNE of Kleve
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Düsseldorf
Font Notes:
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There are two fonts in this church now, both modern; there is a metal [copper?] font dating from 1808, and a later stone font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin with four very large rib-like protrusions set at 90 degrees on its sides; raised on a cruciform pedestal and a circular lower base or plinth; the design is very 20th-century. It has a round, flat and plain wooden cover, also modern. The old sacristy is now being used as baptismal chapel. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original 14thC church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 304880 5745163
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.823174, 6.168645
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 23.42″ N, 6° 10′ 7.12″ E