Torun No. 2 / Thorn / Toruń

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Image copyright © Sławomir Milejski, 2022

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Toruń, Kościół św. Jakuba w Toruniu"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sławomir Milejski, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 8 January 2022 by Sławomir Milejski [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SM_Toruń_Kościół_św_Jakuba_2022_(0).jpg] [accessed 18 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Toruń, Kościół Świętego Jakuba, widok ogólny wnętrza"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ludwig Schneider., 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2012 by Ludwig Schneider [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toruń_Kościół_Św._Jakuba_Wnętrze.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Witamy Ogłoszenia Parafialne Projekt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2009 in the Witamy Ogłoszenia Parafialne Projekt [http://parafiaswietegojakuba-torun.pl/pliki/pliki_galeria/f_16_pion.html] [accessed 18 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 25275TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kościół św. Jakuba w Toruniu [aka Kościół Świętych Apostołów Jakuba i Filipa w Toruniu]
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] [St. James & St. Philip]
Church Location: Świętego Jakuba, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Country Name: Poland
Location: Powiat toruński, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) road 15, on the N bank of Vistula river, 45-50 km SE of Bydgoszcz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
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: 1309 church; modified through the 15thC;
Font Notes:
The Polish Wikipedia entry for this church [https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kościół_św._Jakuba_w_Toruniu] [accessed 18 January 2024] mentions a mannerist baptismal font in it ["manierystyczna chrzcielnica"]; illustrated in [http://parafiaswietegojakuba-torun.pl/pliki/pliki_galeria/f_16_pion.html] [accessed 18 January 2024]: the present font appears late-Baroque, probably 17th or 18th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.011853, 18.612619
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 42.67″ N, 18° 36′ 45.43″ E
UTM: 34U 339839 5876255

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th - 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]