Thulba No. 1
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Scene Description: the composite disused font
design element - motifs - semicircle - 4
Scene Description: on the cushion capital fashioned as font basin
view of font in context
Scene Description: the composite disused font
design element - motifs - roll moulding
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25056THU
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Propsteikirche / Pfarrkirche St. Lambertus [Kirche des ehemaligen Klosters Thulba und heutige Pfarrkirche der Gemeinde Thulba]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Notes: first church dedicated to St. John the Baptist consecrated 816; monastery church dedicated to St. Lambertus built 1127; occupied in the Peasants War of 1525; reinstalled as parish church ca. 1600; monastery secularised 1802; west wing continued as parish church since 1854; renovated 1955-1966
Church Address: Propstei 8, 97723 Oberthulba, Germany
Site Location: Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off local road St2291, W of the Bd7, 10 km NNE of Hammelburg, about 45 km N of Würzburg
Additional Comments: disused font / composite font (the font appears to have been fashioned originally from an old capital)
Font Notes:
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Relegated now to the church exterior this object appears to have been fashioned out of a medieval capital from the church interior [cf. ImagesArea], hollowed out to serve as baptismal font on a round pedestal base. [cf. BSI entry for Thulba No. 2 for the early-17th century baptismal font now in use]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 565706 5558981
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.179385, 9.920265
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 10′ 45.79″ N, 9° 55′ 12.95″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square