Strackholt
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Results: 13 records
animal - mammal - lion - sejant-regardant - 4
Scene Description: tail wrapped on the hind-quarters [NB: the head on the right was damaged and has been poorly re-carved
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: in the lower spandrels formed by the vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - opposed thread directions
Scene Description: between the two vines
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: at several sptos between the rope moulding and the vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Historische Kirche in Strackholt, Landkreis Aurich, Ostfriesland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchStrackholt.JPG] [accesed 3 June 2022]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Source caption: " Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) Altarretabel" -- retable dated 1654
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_Altarretabel_1.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: " Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) innen" -- showing the font by the northeast corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_1.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: before its restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [origin not available] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
view of font and cover
![Source caption: "Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) innen [...] Taufstein"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220603008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) innen [...] Taufstein"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
![Source caption: "Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) innen [...] Taufstein"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220603007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Barbara-Kirche (Strackholt) innen [...] Taufstein"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MartinV, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2019 by MartinV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara-Kirche_(Strackholt)_innen_4_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23999STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Sankt-Barbara Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Barbara
Church Location: Lindenstraße 20, 26629 Großefehn, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aurich, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off the B436 [ala Lindenstraße], in the municiality and 5 km SE of Großefehn, about 10 km SE of Aurich
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück
Historical Region: Ostfriesland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font (variant) [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: late-13thC church
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bentheim School, Variant type; Drake mentions the similarity in the design of the running tendril between this font and the one at Petkum. Modern metal baptismal dish and cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.368611, 7.64
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 22′ 7″ N, 7° 38′ 24″ E
UTM: 32U 409512 5914139
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002