Raesfeld / Hrothusfeld / Raosfeld

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Pusch, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2011 by Thomas Pusch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preĝejo_St._Martin_en_Raesfeld_3.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Aufnahme entstand aus einem Flugzeug heraus und wurde durch eine Glasscheibe fotografiert."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietmar Rabich, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2014 by Dietmar Rabich [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raesfeld,_St.-Martin-Kirche_--_2014_--_2032.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font is partially visible in the foreground, right side, in the south aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: the mid-19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the wooden cover of the mid-19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 September 2017)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the mid-19thC font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 September 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 21513RAE
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Borkener Str., 46348 Raesfeld, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2865 7276
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located 10 km S of Borken, about 30 km E of the Dutch border
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Date: ca. 1170?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font and cover
Church Notes: original church probably ca. 1170; destroyed (?) mid-15thC; present church mid-19thC retains the medieval tower
The present stone font, an octagonal basin on an octagonal pedestal base and base of the same shape is modern, probably of the mid-19th century re-building of this church [NB: we have no information on the font of the ca. 1170 church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.769755, 6.840011
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 11.12″ N, 6° 50′ 24.04″ E
UTM: 32U 350964 5737637