Blersum
Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
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Results: 9 records
animal - mammal - lion - sejant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: smirking faces
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - piping - 4
Scene Description: on thes sides, between the lions
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with linked arches, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - patterns - fan palmette
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church exterior
![Source caption: "Hist. Kirche in Blersum, LK Wittmund, Ostfriesland" [NB: the tower of 1689 -now attached- replaced a wooden one destroyed by a storm in 1685]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220526001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hist. Kirche in Blersum, LK Wittmund, Ostfriesland" [NB: the tower of 1689 -now attached- replaced a wooden one destroyed by a storm in 1685]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchBlersum.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - west end - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Orgel in Blersum, Landkreis Wittmund"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dennis Wubs, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2007 by Dennis Wubs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4722009_Blersum_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der Taufstein des „Bentheimer Typs“ besteht aus behauenem Sandstein und stammt aus den Anfängen des 12. Jahrhunderts."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 2 June 2004 in the Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23988BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Blersumer Kirche
Church Location: Notiser Weg, 26409 Wittmund, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Wittmund, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off Abens road, about 4 km NW of the D210-D461 crossroads and Wittmund, about 40 km NE of Aurich
Historical Region: Ostfriesland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century?, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, A6 Larrelt [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: others in that group
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention
Church Notes: church 1250-1270; detached wooden tower destroyed by storm 1685; new tower of 1689;
Font Notes:
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Listed in Deake (2002) as a Bentheim A6 Larrelt font. Noted and illustrated in Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/blersum] [accessed 26 May 2022]: "Der Taufstein des „Bentheimer Typs“ besteht aus behauenem Sandstein und stammt aus den Anfängen des 12. Jahrhunderts."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.598847, 7.741638
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 35′ 55.85″ N, 7° 44′ 29.9″ E
UTM: 32U 416726 5939627
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (round)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with stylised finial; modern
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002