Elspe
Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2005
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Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: large ones on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2005 by Wolfgang Poguntke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Elspe_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: at several levels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2005 by Wolfgang Poguntke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Elspe_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2005 by Wolfgang Poguntke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Elspe_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fotoflug Sauerland West. Luftaufnahme: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Jakobus der Ältere in Elspe, einem Ortsteil von Lennestadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Kramer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2015 by Michael Kramer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lennestadt-Elspe_St_Jakobus_der_Ältere_FFSW-0719.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Luftaufnahme: Kirche Jakobus d. Ä. in Lennestadt-Elspe, Nordrhein-Westfalen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Kramer, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 July 2015 by Michael Kramer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lennestadt-Elspe_St_Jakobus_der_Ältere_FFSW-0645.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mirakelkreuz in der Kirche St. Jakobus d. Ä. in Elspe, Lennestadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 2005 by Wolfgang Poguntke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirakelkreuz_in_der_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der barocke Taufbrunnen, welcher bisher im engen Turmbereich stand, hat vorn im Querschiff seinen Platz erhalten. Das Taufbecken der Pfarrkirche stammt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helmut Voss, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Helmut Voss [https://helmutvoss.de/kirchen_elspe_st_jakobus_01.html] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Elspe Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Poguntke, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2005 by Wolfgang Poguntke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Elspe_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der barocke Taufbrunnen, welcher bisher im engen Turmbereich stand, hat vorn im Querschiff seinen Platz erhalten. Das Taufbecken der Pfarrkirche stammt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helmut Voss, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Helmut Voss [https://helmutvoss.de/kirchen_elspe_st_jakobus_01.html] [accessed 30 August 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 24885ELS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Jakobus der Ältere zu Elspe
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Peter-Soemer-Straße, Elspe, 57368 Lennestadt, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Olpe, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off the Bd55, 7-8 km E of Finnentrop, about 70 km E of Düsseldorf
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Paderborn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the E side [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque
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: possible wooden church ca. 1000; replaced by a late-Romanesque church demolished 1882
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the entry for this church in Sakrale Bauten [https://helmutvoss.de/kirchen_elspe_st_jakobus_01.html] [accessed 30 August 2023] as a Baroque baptismal of the 17th century now in a new position inside the church ["Der barocke Taufbrunnen, welcher bisher im engen Turmbereich stand, hat vorn im Querschiff seinen Platz erhalten. Das Taufbecken der Pfarrkirche stammt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert"]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1542, 8.05872
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 15.12″ N, 8° 3′ 31.39″ E
UTM: 32U 434171 5667394
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal insert
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal dome matching the basin; dove finial