Verden No. 1 / Verden an der Aller

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design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - 4

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 July 2022 by GFriehalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verden_(Aller)_Dom_St._Maria_und_Cäcilia_Taufstein_529.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage - 4

Scene Description: each different from the other

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette

Scene Description: all around -- notice here the damage at the extreme left; likely to have been caused by a cover staple

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the damage below the upper rim; in this case part of the lead plug that would have supported the anchoring staple is till present

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Verdener Dom, Südportal mit Tierdarstellungen an den Kämpferkapitellen"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 November 2018 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verden_Dom358SüdportalJPG] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Südportal des Verdener Doms, rechte Kämpferzone mit einem Löwen mit seltsamen Vorderbeinen und einem großohrigen Tier mit gefiedertem Flügel, das eine zoologisch missratene, überlebensgroße Fledermaus sein könnte."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 November 2018 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verden_Dom802Südportal_rechte_Kämpferzone.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Südportal des Verdener Doms, linke Kämpferzone mit einem Säugetier mit Entenfüßen, möglicherweise eine zoologisch misslungene Robbe, und einem Vogel mit flammenden Federn, Kopf gesenkt oder fehlend, möglicherweise ein Phönix."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 November 2018 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verden_Dom803Südportal_linke_Kämpferzone.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Südansicht des Doms zu Verden"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 1 July 2014 by Kassandro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VerdenerDomSued.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Blick über die Allerwiesen auf den Verdener Dom."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2021 by JoachimKohler-HB [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dom_zu_Verden,_Allerwiesen_(2021).jpg] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Verden (Aller), Dom, Innenansicht"

Image Source: digital photograph 4 November 2012 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verden_(Aller),_cathedrale,_inner_view.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Dom St. Maria und Cäcilia in Verden (Aller) im Landkreis Verden in Niedersachsen/Deutschland, romanischer Taufstein aus dem 13. Jahrhundert"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Dom St. Maria und Cäcilia in Verden (Aller) im Landkreis Verden in Niedersachsen/Deutschland, romanischer Taufstein aus dem 13. Jahrhundert"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Dom St. Maria und Cäcilia in Verden (Aller) im Landkreis Verden in Niedersachsen/Deutschland, romanischer Taufstein aus dem 13. Jahrhundert"

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1912(?) illustration [source unknown -- image supplied by Pol Herman]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24243VER

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Dom St. Maria und Cäcilia zu Verden

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Cecilia

Church Location: Lugenstein 10-12, 27283 Verden (Aller), Germany -- Tel.: +49 4231 2495

Country Name: Germany

Location: Verden, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located on the E banks of the Aller river and county road 215, about 30 km ESE of Bremen city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it

Church Notes: wooden church here by 814; stone tower added to wooden church ca. 1000; re-built as stone church ca. 1030 and dedicated to St. Mary and St. Cecilia; re-faced in brick late-12thC; destroyed by fire 1268; re-built 1326, 1490; restored and renovated 1829

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Drake (2002) mentions Pudelko (1932) as having made this font an English import, and suggests instead that it resembles some fonts in Sweden, rather; it is, Drake (ibid.) adds, the most impressive in a group sandstone font in Westphalia, "in the area south and slightly east of Bremen", which includes the fonts Achim, Heiligenfelde and Riede, as well. Baptismal font that may have been originally monolithic but now has a horizontal through crack about the middle of the underbowl; however that may be, the font is of the monolithic type in which the basin and base are of a continuous design; the hemispherical basin ir decorated with a vine all around the side, and four pointed arches that rest on the clustered outer columns of the base; these columns are constructional to the broad central shaft and have moulded capitals and bases; the square lower base has matching mouldings; a floral/foliage motif on each corner of the lower base. There is no font cover present, but there is damage to the upper rim where former anchorings for a cover were made. The metal structure on the font is modern and probably used to support a baptismal dish. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 20 June 2023) notes: "Drake mentions the fonts of Verden Cathedral, Achim, Heiligenfelde and Riede as being part of “a small group of sandstone fonts”. Searching in the neighbourhood, my opinion is that the fonts of Kirchtimken Stolzenau and Leese belong to the same group. Kirchtimke is said to have been made by the same workshop at Verden, and it still has painting."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.917, 9.2289

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 1.2″ N, 9° 13′ 44.04″ E

UTM: 32U 515391 5863062

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric (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

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932