Olfen

Results: 41 records

B01: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B02: angel - holding censer

not quite clear whether this turiferary angel is runing towards the rightor, more likely, half-kneeling; the censer is being swung quite high

Scene Description: not quite clear whether this turiferary angel is runing towards the rightor, more likely, half-kneeling; the censer is being swung quite high

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B03: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: curly-haired Christ-Child naked, holding a round object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B04: human figure - male - bearded - kneeling - holding cup

Scene Description: this is surely the first [i.e., nearest] Magus of the Adoration of the Magi scene; a crown is on the floor before him

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B05: human figure - male - bearded - crowned - holding cup in the left hand

Scene Description: this is the second Magus of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B06: human figure - male - bearded - crowned - holding cup in the right hand - holding coffer in the left hand

Scene Description: this is the third Magus of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B07: angel - holding censer

turiferary angel with a daring hair-do; if the direction pointed by the censers is any indication, the angels would be part of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Scene Description: turiferary angel with a daring hair-do; if the direction pointed by the censers is any indication, the angels would be part of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B07: angel - holding censer - detail

Scene Description: turiferary angel with a daring hair-do; if the direction pointed by the censers is any indication, the angels would be part of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

B08: human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross in her right hand - holding book in her left hand

Scene Description: the book is closed and has elaborate straps

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

showing the west, southwest and south sides, a partial view of the four panels [six including the censing angels] that make up the Adoration of the Magi scene

Scene Description: showing the west, southwest and south sides, a partial view of the four panels [six including the censing angels] that make up the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

showing the southwest, south and southeast sides, a partial view of the four panels [six including the censing angels] that make up the Adoration of the Magi scene; the three Magi are seen here

Scene Description: showing the southwest, south and southeast sides, a partial view of the four panels [six including the censing angels] that make up the Adoration of the Magi scene; the three Magi are seen here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four; this one, located below the Madonna and Child scene, is damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four such; this one below the secomg Magus of the Adoration scene on the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four such; this one below the secomg Magus of the Adoration scene on the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four such; this one below the secomg Magus of the Adoration scene on the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: located below one of the two turiferary angels of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four; this one, located below the Madonna and Child scene, is damaged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: one of four such

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - east and northeast sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of basin - northwest side

Scene Description: showing L->R: St. Catherine,angel with censer, Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south and southeast side

Scene Description: showing two of the Magi

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - detail

Scene Description: St. Vitus?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - detail

Scene Description: St. Vitus?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - holy-water reservoir

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - holy-water reservoir

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: with St. Catherine in the centre arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - north side

Scene Description: St. Catherine in the centre arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northeast side

Scene Description: a crowned female holding a Latin cross in her right hand and a closed book in her left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - northwest side

Scene Description: censing angel in the centre arch; Catherine in the left arch; Madonna and Child in the right arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - southeast and east sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

view of font in context - west side

L-> R: censing angel; Madonna and Child; Magus from the Adoration of the Magi scene; notice the star in the right spandrel of the west side

Scene Description: L-> R: censing angel; Madonna and Child; Magus from the Adoration of the Magi scene; notice the star in the right spandrel of the west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 21534OLF

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Vitus

Church Patron Saints: St. Vitus

Church Location: Kirchstraße 19, 59399 Olfen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2595 221

Country Name: Germany

Location: Coesfeld, Nordhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the B235, SSW of Lüdinghausen. SW of Münster

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: Baptismal font said locally to have been transferred from Sandfort Castle in 1952

Church Notes: original church here documented before 889, probably built of wood ca. 836; stone church built ca. 1100-1150; re-built ca. 1450; present church 1882-1885

Font Notes: Click to view

On-site notes: the central theme of the iconographic programme on this octagoanl font appears to be the Adoration of the Magi, a scene spread over four of the basin sides [W-SW-S-SE], six if we add the two censing angels at the outer ends [NW-E], leaving two arches for two crowned female figures, one of which is clearly idenfied as St. Catherine of Alexandria by the sword and wheel symbols; the other holds a cross and closed book; the figures are framed in round arches with plain spandrels, except the one with the Madonna and Child, which has a six-point star in the right spandrel; octagonal underbowl; round stem and round splaying lower base with four lions facing up at 90-degree angles; the marble (?) plinth is modern. There is no cover proper present, but a glass or PVC has been secured to the upper rim; this top allows a view of the leaded interior but blocks access to it. The outer surface of the stone appears to have been drastically cleaned, perhaps with some re-carving

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.706103, 7.380307

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 21.97″ N, 7° 22′ 49.1″ E

UTM: 32U 388084 5729593

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 9-134 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 95 x 102 cm

Basin Depth: 35 cm [approx.]

Height of Basin Side: 46 cm

Basin Total Height: 60 cm

Height of Base: 22 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 38 x 46 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site