Passau No. 2

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 16 April 2023)
Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: notice the metal staple close the upper rim, and anchoring for the font cover lock
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 16 April 2023)
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
view of church exterior in context - west view
view of church interior - monument - tomb - Gisela of Bavaria, Queen consort of Hungary

Scene Description: ca. 980 - 1059; joined the Benedictine conveny and Passau, where she died; was beatified 1975
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 16 April 2023)
INFORMATION
FontID: 24680PAS
Church/Chapel: Katholische Heiligkreuz Pfarrkirche Passau [aka Kirche St. Pantaleon / Klosterkirche zum Heiligen Kreuz.]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross [St. Pantaleon (aka Panteleimon)]
Church Location: Klosterwinkel 1, 94032 Passau, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Niederbayern, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located near the E tip of the 'island' in the Passau-Obernzell, just W of the border with Austria, about 140 km ENE of Munich
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Passau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Erasmuskapelle
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for bringing this font to our attention and for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: 12thC church [started ca. 1010?]; re-built 1687; restored 1860s;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a blind arcade of narrow trefoiled arches all around; tounded underbowl to an octagonal pedestal base. No cover present but the font has a metal staple on its side, just below the upper rim, an anchoring for a cover lock.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.574167,
13.471944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 34′ 27″ N,
13° 28′ 19″ E
UTM: 33U 387286 5381247
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]