Schenklengsfeld

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Image Source: digital image in the Evangelisches Kirchspiel Schenklengsfeld web site [https://kirchspiel-schenklengsfeld.de/mauritiuskirche] [accessed 6 March 2023]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisches Kirchspiel Schenklengsfeld, 2023

Image Source: digital image in the Evangelisches Kirchspiel Schenklengsfeld web site [https://kirchspiel-schenklengsfeld.de/mauritiuskirche] [accessed 6 March 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Schenklengsfeld, St. Mauritius"

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 December 2019 by Karsten Ratzke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schenklengsfeld,_St._Mauritius.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24607SCH
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche Mauritius in Schenklengsfeld
Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Location: Kirchpl. 5-7, 36277 Schenklengsfeld, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off local road L3171, E of road 27, 10 km ESE of Bad Hersfeld, about 50 km SSE of Kassel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1517?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and fro his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 12thC church, documented 1141; much modified since
Noted and illustrated in the Evangelisches Kirchspiel Schenklengsfeld web site [https://kirchspiel-schenklengsfeld.de/mauritiuskirche] [accessed 6 March 2023] as a late-Gothic baptismal font of ca. 1517 decorated with varied patterns and bearing three armorial devices: "Ein spätgotischer Taufstein mit einem phantasievollem Bandschlingenwerk um 1517 mit drei adeligen Wappen darin schmückt den Altarraum." The font is chalice shaped with round contours below a pronounced roll moulding ending down in a moulded octagonal lower base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.817927, 9.84383
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 4.54″ N, 9° 50′ 37.79″ E
UTM: 32U 559442 5629917

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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