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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: down the sides from the underbowl to the lower base

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Image Source: digital photograph 3 Januart 2009 by Martin Vavřík [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrnoJakubKrtitelnice.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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symbol

Scene Description: on the front side of the basin

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 Januart 2009 by Martin Vavřík [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrnoJakubKrtitelnice.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint James Church in Brno, Czech Republic"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sveter [Petr Šmerkl], 2010

Image Source: digital photograph February 2010 by Sveter [Petr Šmerkl] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kostel_Svateho_Jakuba_Brno_2010_02.JPG] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel sv. Jakuba (Brno), Brno - město, nám. Jakubské, Brno" -- showing in the bottom-left corner is the top of the holy-water stoup said to have been a font in a maternity hospital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lasy, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 14 December 2010 by Lasy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Saint_James_(Brno)1.JPG] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel svatého Jakuba (Brno) - gotická křtitelnice z 20. let 16. století"

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Image Source: digital photograph 3 Januart 2009 by Martin Vavřík [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrnoJakubKrtitelnice.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Brno-kostel-svatého-Jakuba-interiér"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ben Skála, Benfoto, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2016 by Ben Skála, Benfoto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brno-kostel-svatého-Jakuba-interiér2016zh.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Původně se jednalo o křtitelnici používanou do roku 1959 v porodnici na Obilním Trhu" [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirk, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2009 by Kirk [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Město_Brno_-_kropenka_v_kostele_Sv._Jakuba.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24947BRN
Church/Chapel: Kostel svatého Jakuba
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Jakubské nám. 11, 602 00 Brno-střed, Czech Republic -- Tel.: +420 731 402 777
Country Name: Czech Republic
Location: Brno-město, Jihomoravský kraj / South Moravian Region
Directions to Site: Nrno is located at the E50-E461 crossroads, at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, about 200 km SE of Prague, about 120 km N of Vienna, Austria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1620s?
Century and Period: 17th century(early?),
Cognate Fonts: others of this type in the area
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: first documented as Romanesque in 1228; re-built as Gothic; damaged by fire 1515; repaired 1592;
Baptismal font made of a reddish spotted marble in the early-17th century; the dodecagonal basin sides are slightly convex, one of them bearing a crossed double-X symbol; graded mouldings all the way down from the underbowl to the lower base. Round and flat font cover; appears modern. A second vessel in this church is said to have been originally a baptismal font in use until 1959 in the maternity hospital of Obilní Trh ["Původně se jednalo o křtitelnici používanou do roku 1959 v porodnici na Obilním Trhu"] [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.196677, 16.608444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 11′ 48.04″ N, 16° 36′ 30.4″ E
UTM: 33U 617180 5450565

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (reddish)
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Drainage Notes: metal lining or insert

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]