Hunfeld / Hünfeld / Unofeld

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design element - motifs - moulding - stop mouldings

Scene Description: all over the lower base

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Katholische Kirchengemeinde im Hünfelder Land [https://www.katholische-kirche-huenfeld.de/huenfeld/images/st_jakobus/bilder-kirche/Jakobuskirche-0004.JPG] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the basin sides and underbowl

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Katholische Kirchengemeinde im Hünfelder Land [https://www.katholische-kirche-huenfeld.de/huenfeld/images/st_jakobus/bilder-kirche/Jakobuskirche-0004.JPG] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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inscription - detail

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Katholische Kirchengemeinde im Hünfelder Land [https://www.katholische-kirche-huenfeld.de/huenfeld/images/st_jakobus/bilder-kirche/Jakobuskirche-0004.JPG] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hünfeld; St. Jakobus"

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2018 by Onurb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Jakobus_Hünfeld.JPG] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover seen here at the far [east] end, in the right [south] aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katholische Kirchengemeinde im Hünfelder Land, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph in the Katholische Kirchengemeinde im Hünfelder Land [https://www.katholische-kirche-huenfeld.de/huenfeld/images/st_jakobus/bilder-kirche/Jakobuskirche-0034.JPG] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hünfeld, St.-Jakobus-Kirche, Seitenaltar" -- the font and cover partially visible in the bottom-right corner of the image

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dguendel, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph October 2007 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hünfeld,_St.-Jakobus-Kirche,_Seitenaltar.jpg] [accessed 1 December 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24476HUN
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Jakobus iHünfeld
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Kirchpl., 36088 Hünfeld, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6652 992230
Country Name: Germany
Location: Fulda, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the B27-B84 crossroads, 16 km NE of Fulda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, E end
Date: 1496
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
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: original Benedictine monastery here in the 10thC; independent parish documented mid-12thC; parish church built ca. 1200; re-built 1506; restored 19thC; renovated 2010
Baptismal font of 1496 said to have been retained from the medieval church in the 1506 re-building. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with tracery with a painted inscription on it; raised on a octagonal base with multiple step mouldings. Octagonal cover of several levels with traceried panels; metal finial. Both the font and its cover are painted.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.671897, 9.765848
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 18.83″ N, 9° 45′ 57.05″ E
UTM: 32U 554117 5613619

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: around the basin underbowl
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]