Erle / Erler / Erlore / Horlon
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 September 2017)
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern church at Erle
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 26 September 2017)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font is visible on the right of the image
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 26 September 2017)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font at Erle
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 26 September 2017)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font in the modern church at Erle
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 26 September 2017)
view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern 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 26 September 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21514ERL
Object Type: Baptismal Font?
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Silvester
Church Patron Saints: St. Silvester [aka Sylvester]
Church Location: Kirchplatz 6, 46348 Raesfeld-Erle, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off the B224, SSE of Raesfeld, between Dorsten (S) and Borken (N)
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Century and Period: 11th century, 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 said to go back to the 11thC; originally a chapel of ease to Raesfeld, became parish in the 12thC; destroyed by fire 1560; re-built 17thC; demolished 1875; new church 1879; destroyed by Allied bombs in 1945; present church is a modern re-building
Font Notes:
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The present font here is, like the church itself, a modern replacement of the medieval one [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original 11th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.746944, 6.864167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 49″ N, 6° 51′ 51″ E
UTM: 32U 352557 5735052