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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: the animal heads appear to be feline, lion? -- below the mouth, at the start of the vegetation there is some faint beaded-tape patterns

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: one such seen here in the centre; they appear to be feline; lion?

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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human figure - face, head or mask

Scene Description: one such is visible here towards the right end of the lower band

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption; "Kirche Sankt Matthäus in Dorsten Wulfen (Hugin stitch)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Hagedorn, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2009 by G.Hagedorn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Matthäus_Wulfen_equirectangular_perspective.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Wulhen church after the 1945 Allied bombing; it would be re-built in 1950

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Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph, reproduced in Festschrift "Jubiläumsschützenfest Wulfen 1983" (p. 77) [http://www.wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Datei:Matthäus_1945.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Baudenkmal 37 St. Matthäus, Dorsten-Wulfen, Innen"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dr. W. Strickling, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2019 by Dr. W. Strickling [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baudenkmal_37_St._Matthäus,_Dorsten-Wulfen_2019-05-19_8843.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein der St.-Matthäus-Kirche, 1926"

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Image Source: digital image of a 1926 B&W photograph in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23573WUL
Church/Chapel: Römisch-Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Matthäus / St. Matthäus Kirche in Wulfen
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Church Location: Matthäusplatz, Wulfen, 46286 Dorsten, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) county road 58 [aka Weseler Strasse], in the municipality and 6-7 km NNE of Dorsten, about 30 km N of Essen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower space
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Baumberg font?
Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar fonts at Dorsten, Lembeck, etc.
Church Notes: only the baptismal remains from the medieval church; the oldest parts of the present church, the chancel and the sacristy, are 18thC; church badly damaged in Allied bombings of 1945; re-built 1950
A 13th-century baptismal font here is illustrated and described with measurements in J. Körner (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. Landkreis Recklinghausen und Stadtkreise Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck und Osterfeld (Aschendorff, Münster 1929. S. 470-476) [http://wulfen-wiki.de/index.php?title=Bau-_und_Kunstdenkmäler_von_Westfalen_1929] [accessed 27 November 2021] ["Taufstein (Abbildung S. 473), romanisch, 13. Jahrhundert, zylinderförmig, 1,0 m Durchmesser und 88 cm hoch; mit Palmetten- und Weinlaubfries, die mit Gesichtsmasken und Tierfratzen belebt sind."]. Noted in Deio's Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler (Band Westfalen von 1969: 608ff) as a cylindrical baptismal Romanesque font decorated with palmette and vine motifs, with animal heads and masks. Described and illustrated in Bludau's Heimatverein Wulfen plant „Radtour zu den Taufsteinen in Wulfen und Lembeck“, in Stadt Spiegel (31 May 2017) [https://www.lokalkompass.de/dorsten/c-ueberregionales/heimatverein-wulfen-plant-radtour-zu-den-taufsteinen-in-wulfen-und-lembeck_a765316] [accessed 27 November 2021] as a baptismal font of the late-Romanesque period made of Baumberger sandstone ca. 1250, somewhat similar to the font at Dorsten and probably made by the same hands; the decoration consists of two bands of vines with animal and human masks or faces.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.721778, 7.014722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 18.4″ N, 7° 0′ 53″ E
UTM: 32U 362873 5731960

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Baumberger)
Number of Pieces: 1
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: the cover present in a 1926 photograph [cf. ImagesArea] may have been lost in 1945