Wermerichshausen
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Vitus in Wermerichshausen"
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Münnerstadt, Wermerichshausen, Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Vitus"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 January 2014 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münnerstadt,_Wermerichshausen,_Katholische_Pfarrkirche_St._Vitus,_005.jpg] [accessed 11 November 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Münnerstadt, Wermerichshausen, Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Vitus" -- the font is partially visible in the bottom-left, by the north-side altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 January 2014 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münnerstadt,_Wermerichshausen,_Katholische_Pfarrkirche_St._Vitus,_004.jpg] [accessed 11 November 2022]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in Worldwide Elevation Map Finder Sunset Sunrise Times Lookup [https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7574/29110573692_54d00d19e9_b.jpg] [accessed 11 November 2022]
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inscription
Scene Description: 1597
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design element - patterns - ribbed - ribs framed in round arches
Scene Description: all around the sides and underbowl
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design element - patterns - crenellated
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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design element - patterns - scalloped - leaves
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: the top one is patterned, a rope moulding; the others are round
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24441WER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1597
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Vitus / Dorfkirche von Wermerichshausen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in front of the left [N] altar
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vitus
Church Notes: 10th-11thC church; parochial 1180; re-built 1601; modified 18th and 19thC
Church Address: Steggasse 6, 97702 Münnerstadt, Germany
Site Location: Unterfranken, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) local road KG2 [aka Weichtunger Str.], in the municipality and 5 km E of Münnerstadt, about 50 km NNE of Würzburg
Font Notes:
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Stone baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl raised on a cylindrical pedestal base and a circular lower base; the upper basin side bears a date inscription in Arabic numerals (1597)l the sides and underbowl below are decorated with a ribbed pattern; the round stem is covered in a scalloped leafed pattern except on the spot that bears a coat-of-arms; the lower bases is round and has graded mouldings, the top one a rope moulding. The font cover has two volumes: the lower one is octagonal with slanted sides, the panels decorated with medallions and symbols, while the upper volume [metal?] is a dome with a haloed-bird finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 590702 5566252
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.24146, 10.272
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 14′ 29.26″ N, 10° 16′ 19.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on one of the octagonal basin sides
Inscription Text: "1-5-9-7"
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]