Grafelde No. 2 / Grafla / Graflon

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information

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1662 font and its cover in context

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1662 font and cover in the foreground; the disused 1551 font in the northeast corner on the other side of the benches

INFORMATION

FontID: 24281GRA
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Marienkapelle
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Winkel 7, Grafelde, 31079 Sibbesse, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hildesheim, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off local road L469, in he municipality and 3 km SSE of Sibbesse, about 10 km SSW of Hildesheim
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N side of the chancel arch
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid) [composite font?], Baroque [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
Catalogued and illustrated in Bähren-Aye (2005) as the second of two fonts in this church: baptismal font consisting of an octagonal [cf. infra] basin decorated with mouldings at the top and bottom; the sides decorated with an inscription over three lines; the originally square basin has its corners chamfered and appears now octagonal; it bears two stonemason marks on the shaft [NB: but the shaft may not have been the original base of the font, as it makes the whole too tall for a font of that period]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.02333, 9.92237
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 23.99″ N, 9° 55′ 20.53″ E
UTM: 32U 563288 5764035

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Height of Base: 62 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 136 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 43 x 39 cm* / 25 x 26 cm* inside
Notes on Measurements: * Bähren-Aye (2005): 299

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "ANNO / 1662 / PASTO / RE x / BAPTIS / TE : HOC / IN HO / NOR : DEI // CON / HANS / HAMA / N. SEN / DN: IA / COBO / SCHÜT / TEN DIA // R + / HANS / HAMA / N. IUN : / M + TIL / E. IAGE / WEN / 3. TALE //"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]

REFERENCES

Bähren-Aye, Gisela, "Taufbecken in Niedersachsen: aus der Zeit vom Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts", Hamburg, 2005