Stolzenau

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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus?

Image Source: edited detaio of a digital photograph in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detaio of a digital photograph in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: much eroded and perhaps trimmed at the top

Image Source: edited detaio of a digital photograph in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der gedrehte Turmhelm auf dem 45 Meter hohen Turm der St. Jacobi-Kirche ist eine Besonderheit. Der Turm wurde im Jahr 1679 in Stolzenau, Niedersachsen, Deutschland errichtet."

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2015 by Losch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Jacobi-Kirche_in_Stolzenau_IMG_7947.jpg] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the old font in the chancel, at the far [east] end of the left [north] bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the pedestal base is probably a modern replacement

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25246STO

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche Sankt Jacobi [Jakobus-der-Ältere-Kirche]

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Lange Str. 42, 31592 Stolzenau, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nienburg/Weser, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (N) Lange Str., N of the Bd441, 18-20 km SW of Nienburg-Weser, about 50 km WNW of Hannover, 80 km SSE of Bremen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 13th century [altered?], Late Romanesque [altered?]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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: original castle chapel of Stolzenau? modified and tower added 1679; present church is 1828

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Drake (2002) mentions a group sandstone font in Westphalia, "in the area south and slightly east of Bremen", which includes the fonts at Achim, Heiligenfelde, Riede and Verden cathedral, as well. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 20 June 2023) suggests that the group can be expanded to include the fonts of Kirchtimke, Stolzenau and Leese. Described and illustrated as a medieval stone baptismal font in Kirchen ans Licht gebracht. Führungen in unentdeckten Kirchen [https://kirchenfuehrung.com/stolzenau/] [accessed 10 January 2024] ["der steinerne Taufstein aus dem Mittelalter"]. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jacobi_(Stolzenau)] [accessed 10 January 2024] reports a baptismal font of the second half of the 13th century in it ["ein steinernes Taufbecken stammt jedoch aus der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.510897, 9.072322

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 39.23″ N, 9° 4′ 20.36″ E

UTM: 32U 504908 5817867

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]