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Scene Description: Source caption: "Leipziger Missionswerk, Paul-List-Straße 19"

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Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2022 by Ghostwriter123 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leipziger_Missionswerk_23.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2024]

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Image Source: digital phitigraph by Antje Lanzendorf in the EKMD [https://www.ekmd.de/aktuell/projekte-und-aktionen/wasser-des-lebens-ekm-sommerserie-2023/#gallery-91] [accessed 14 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25262LEI
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherisches Missionswerk Leipzig
Church Location: Paul-List-Straße 19, 04103 Leipzig, Germany -- Tel.: +49 341 9940600
Country Name: Germany
Location: Leipzig, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located towards the Centre-SE area of the city, just W of the Botanical Gardens of the University
Font Location in Church: In the gardens of the Missionhaus
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
A disused stone baptismal font is shown in the EKMD [https://www.ekmd.de/aktuell/projekte-und-aktionen/wasser-des-lebens-ekm-sommerserie-2023/#gallery-91] [accessed 14 January 2024] in the gardens of the Leipzig Missionswerk; we have no information on it or its provenence. The building is mid-19th century and has no sacramental functions that we know of. It consists of an octagonal basin with a broad flat moulding at the rim and eight(?) ribs or piping around the underbowl; stands on a round pedestal base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.33031, 12.38413
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 19′ 49.12″ N, 12° 23′ 2.87″ E
UTM: 33U 317766 5689807

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal