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coat of arms

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - ribs framed in round arches

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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inscription

Scene Description: "1603"

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pillig, Pfarrkirche, Kreis Mayen-Koblenz"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 July 2005 by Claus Graf / Historiograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus in Pillig im Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz)"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10202.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus in Pillig im Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz)"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24709PIL

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus

Church Patron Saints: St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]

Church Location: L110 37, 56753 Pillig, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located off the L110 [aka Elztalstrasse], 10 KM SE of Mayen, about 25 km WSW of Koblenz

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1603

Century and Period: 17th century(early), Baroque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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: present building of 1772 on the site of an earlier [Romanesque, Gothic] church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font noted in the Gemeinde Pillig web site [http://www.gemeinde-pillig.de/unser dorf.htm] [accessed 1 May 2023]: "1603 Taufbecken in der St. Firminuskirche". The stone font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin inscribed below the rim with the date 1603, the sides and underbowl decorated with a pattern on concave ribs framed in round arches, a rope moulding below; round stem; the lower base has a roll moulding atop then becomes square, one of the sides decorated with an emblem or coat of arms. Moulded metal font cover with cross finial.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 379648 5566678

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the basin side

Inscription Text: "1603"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]