Nammen nr. Porta Westfalica

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Laurentiuskapelle in Nammen"

Image Source: digital photograph December 2012 by Grugerio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nammen-Laurentiuskapelle-0132.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "die Laurentiuskapelle in Nammen an der Laurentiusstraße"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2019 by GeorgDerReisende [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentiuskapelle,_1,_Nammen,_Porta_Westfalica,_Landkreis_Minden-Lübbecke.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Seats in St. Laurentius Chapel in Nammen, Germany"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 October 2017 by WernerPopken [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seats_in_St._Laurentius_Chapel_in_Nammen,_Germany.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2022 by Kurt Römming [https://www.mt.de/lokales/porta-westfalica/800-Jahre-alter-Taufstein-steht-jetzt-in-der-Laurentius-Kapelle-23245133.html] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24949NAM

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Laurentiuskapelle

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Laurentiusstraße 11, 32457 Porta Westfalica, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Minden-Lübbecke, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the L764 [aka Laurentiusstraße], in the municipality and 4-5 km ENE of Porta Westfalica, 8-9 km SE of Minden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: , Medieval

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: previous chapel here 1350; half-timbered hall dated 1523; roof turret added 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Kurt Römming's 19 April 2022 article '800 Jahre alter Taufstein steht jetzt in der Laurentius-Kapelle' in the Mindener Tageblatt [https://www.mt.de/lokales/porta-westfalica/800-Jahre-alter-Taufstein-steht-jetzt-in-der-Laurentius-Kapelle-23245133.html] [accessed 26 September 2023]. The claim of this font being eight hundred years old is made in this source; the font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base that could be a later replacement; the font is totally plain and therefore without elements or decorations to support the dating. The metal cover is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.247888, 8.987132

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 52.4″ N, 8° 59′ 13.67″ E

UTM: 32U 499121 5788610

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]