Velen
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the modern church of the late 1850s
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font and cover in the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
view of font cover
Scene Description: the modern font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
view of font cover - finial
Scene Description: the modern font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2017 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 November 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21538VEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Andreas
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Kirchpl. 3, 46342 Velen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2863 4365
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) highway 31, NE of Borken, WSW of Münster
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this modern church and font
Church Notes: present church 1952; earlier church demolished 1856, and the Protestant church of St. Walburga, in Velen-Ramsdorf, was shared in the interim
Font Notes:
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The present font is modern, probably of the building of this replacement church in the late-1850s ]NB: we have nio information on the font of the church demolished in 1856].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 361674 5751146