Pellworm No. 1 / Alte Kirche Pellworm

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

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Christ - Christ in Majesty

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 31 July 2010 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pellworm,_Alte_Kirche_St._Salvator,_das_Taufbecken.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 8 March 2024]

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned - enthroned

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cleric - standing - holding book - 4

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design element - architectural - arcade - ogee arches - crocketed

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inscription

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inscription

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pellworm - Alte Kirche St. Salvator - Seitenansicht"

Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2022 by Mensch01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pellworm_-_Alte_Kirche_St._Salvator_-_Seitenansicht.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 8 March 2024]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pellworm, Alte Kirche St. Salvator, der Flügelaltar" -- the font cover is partially visible in the bottom-left corner of the image

Image Source: digital photograph 31 July 2010 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pellworm,_Alte_Kirche_St._Salvator,_der_Flügelaltar.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 8 March 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pellworm, Alte Kirche St. Salvator, Innenansicht"

Image Source: digital photograph 31 July 2010 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pellworm,_Alte_Kirche_St._Salvator,_Innenansicht.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 8 March 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pellworm, Alte Kirche St. Salvator, das Taufbecken."

Image Source: digital photograph 31 July 2010 by Dguendel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pellworm,_Alte_Kirche_St._Salvator,_das_Taufbecken.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 8 March 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25374PEL

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Alte Kirche St. Salvator

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Church Location: Alte Kirche 5, 25849 Pellworm, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located on the Westernmost area of the island of Pellworm, itself located about 25 km W of Husum, on the W coast of the peninsula, S of Denmark

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE area of the nave

Date: 1475

Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Heinrich Klinghe [aka Hinrik Klinghe]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it

Church Notes: documented 11thC wooden church; re-built in stone ca. 1200; tower added 13th-14thC; damaged by storms ca. 1610 and 1634; restored 1687

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The German Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Kirche_(Pellworm)] [accessed 8 March 2024] mentions a baptismal font cast in bronze by Hinrich Klinghe in 1475 that was originally destined for Buphever church, but that building was washed away in the 1634 flood and was taken to Pellworm instead; the basin is decorated with an arcade that houses both the Baptism and the Crucifixion of Christ, Christ in Majesty, a crowned Madonna and Child, as well as many other figures; there are two running inscriptions around the upper and lower sides of the basin [transcription not available]; the basin is supported on four standing clerics set at 90-degree angles, each holding a book. The buffet-type octagonal font cover bears a painted German inscription [Mark 16:16] and is suspended from the ceiling by a pulley system. [cf. BSI entry for Busum / Büsum for the 13th-century baptismal font of bronze said to have been stolen by pirate Cord Widderich in the 15th century that ended up in the church of St. Clemens in Büsum]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.5155, 8.592222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 30′ 55.8″ N, 8° 35′ 32″ E

UTM: 32U 473602 6040955

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: one around the upper basin side, the other around the lower basin side

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]