Loquard

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animal - mammal - lion - 4

Scene Description: much eroded, at the four angles

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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design element - patterns - ball, bead or pellet

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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design element - patterns - interlace - linked palmettes

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: at the very top; much restored

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Loquard38.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2013 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loquardaltar-2901.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the stone font is visible on the left [north] side, abouth half-way up the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innenraum_Loquard16.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: original work from ca. 1510 by Flemish workshop; probably donated by Viktor Freese; restored and added to in 1973 by Brüggemann, of Winsen an der Luhr

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2013 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loquardaltar-2901.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: documented still in use in the 1880s, stood for years disused in the pastor's garden at Westerholt; moved to Loquard in 1965 [uncorroborated claim; Drake does not mention Westerholt [cf. FontNotes]]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 May 2011 by Matthias Süßen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Loquard318.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 17 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21979LOQ

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Loquarder Kirche

Church Location: Kirchringstraße, Loquard, 26736 Krummhörn, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Loquard is now part of Krummhörn, and to the SSW of it,WNW of Emden, in Ostfriesland; this Westerholt is located about 15 km N of Aurich, about 30-35 km NE of Loquard, in the Wittmund district

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster

Font Location in Church: Inside the Loquard church, in the nave, N side

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim workshop

Church Notes: present Loquard church late-13thC; tower added 15thC; repaired and re-built 18thC; original north and south entrances now blocked -- the church at Westerholt said to be mid- to late-13thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Drake (2002) with reference to F. Petersen (1997 : 76) as being still in use with a wooden cover "as late as 1880"; Drake (ibid.) adds that the font "spent an unknown number of years in the garden of the pastor's house", three quarters of the basin broken away and the base badly weathered, being later restored. [NB: Drake does not mention the Westerholt connection]. Baptismal font of sandstone consisting of a round slightly tapering basin decorated with, from the top down, a narrow band of zigzag, two bands of rope in different directions, the lower being larger, a broad band of linked palmettes, described in Drake (ibid.) as resembling the formal palmettes on southern Swedish fonts, somewhat like the pattern on the Hatzum font but larger, and, at the bottom, a row of beads; the base is the usual Bentheim with four lions (?) climbing at the corners; the base is very eroded; the basin appears to have been heavily restored. The metal and rock glass cover is modern. The font is said to have been brought to Loquard in 1965 from Westerholt, where it lay disused in the pator's garden.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.3903, 7.0453

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 25.08″ N, 7° 2′ 43.08″ E

UTM: 32U 370013 5917470

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Petersen, F., Romanische Taufsteine in Ostfriesland, 1997