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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: very stylised capitals

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyk_auf_Föhr_St._Nicolai_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyk_auf_Föhr_St._Nicolai_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2016 by F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulturdenkmaeler_Wyk_Boldixum_(Kirche)_011_2016_06_02.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: in most nut not all of the arcade spandrels

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyk_auf_Föhr_St._Nicolai_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source captin: "St. Nicolai auf Föhr"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph 12 July 2008 by amras_wi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicolai_Foehr.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenraum der Kirche St. Nicolai in Wyk auf Föhr"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Abhoefer, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 21 September 2014 by Abhoefer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyk_auf_Föhr,_Kirche_St._Nicolai.JPG] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "13th-century Romanesque church building with gothic and baroque extensions"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2016 by F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulturdenkmaeler_Wyk_Boldixum_(Kirche)_009_2016_05_31.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2016 by F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulturdenkmaeler_Wyk_Boldixum_(Kirche)_010_2016_06_02.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the metal stand for the baptismal dish

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2016 by F. Riedelio / Friedrich Haag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulturdenkmaeler_Wyk_Boldixum_(Kirche)_011_2016_06_02.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Boldixum St Nicolai Kirche Taufbecken Kat. Wyk auf Foehr Boldixum St Nicolai Kirche Taufbecken Wyk auf Foehr postalisch nicht gelaufen 1921-1965 gute Erhaltung Alte Ansichtskarte Postkarte Brigning " -- an undated photograph that shows the font before its restoration

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Image Source: digital image of an undated [1921-1965?] B&W photograph in oldthing [https://oldthing.de/Boldixum-St-Nicolai-Kirche-Taufbecken-Kat-Wyk-auf-Foehr-0022829630] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Nicolai in Wyk, Ortsteil Boldixum, auf der Insel Föhr: Blick vom Taufstein zur Orgel."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © E-W, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2011 by E-W [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicolai_Boldixum_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " St. Nicolai-Kirche in Wyk-Boldixum auf der Nordseeinsel Föhr, Taufbecken aus dem 13. Jahrhundert aus Kalkstein vermutlich von Gotland."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2021 by Arnoldius [ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyk_auf_Föhr_St._Nicolai_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24060BOL
Church/Chapel: Evangelische St.-Nicolai-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Kirchweg, 25938 Wyk auf Föhr, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4681 3650
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Boldixum is loacted off local road L214 [aka Hardesweg], a northern district of the town of Wyk auf Föhr, on the North Sea island of Föhr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the chancel arch
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten
Cognate Fonts: other such
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Baptismal font of Gotlandic origin made for export in large quantities; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a stiysed arcade of trefoiled arches with triquetra symbols in the spandrels all around; the pedestal base is of truncated cone shape, with a roll moulding atop. No cover presen but the basin interior is provided with a metal stand to support the 16th-century baptismal dish.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.695819, 8.55036
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 41′ 44.95″ N, 8° 33′ 1.3″ E
UTM: 32U 471020 6061036

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining