Passau No. 2

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 16 April 2023)

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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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © s.somkuti, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2019 by s.somkuti [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Passau_20190724_DSC0490_(48373778646).jpg] [accessed 16 April 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

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 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)

view of font

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;
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]