Tellingstedt

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animal - leg - 3

Scene Description: stylised, both the leg and the claw

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: notice the anchoring for the original font cover

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée

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symbol - star - 8-point

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: with the detached bell-cote in the foreground

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible on the left [north] side

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21690TEL
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche St. Martin in Tellingstedt
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Am Kirchplatz, Tellingstedt, Dithmarschen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located off (N) highway 203, 13 km ENE of Heide, 60 km WSW of Kiel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: church here documented 1140; expanded mi-16th, 18thC
Baptismal font of bronze consisting of a roughly-cyulindrical cauldron-shaped basin raised on three clawed leg supports; the basin has thre thin parallel mouldings on the upper basin side, with added loops for the anchoring of the original font cover; a double moulding around the centre of the sides; between the two sets of mouldings are several stylised symbols, including a 8-point star (?) and a potent cross; the legs of the base are striated with claw ends. The present cover is a tall and fancier variation of the basic scroll-ribs-on-a-platform design with a turned finial; painted and gilded.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.219389, 9.275222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 13′ 9.8″ N, 9° 16′ 30.8″ E
UTM: 32U 517946 6007966

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood?,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]