Mainz No. 6 / Maguntia / Meyence
Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles to the central shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HEN-Magonza, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2009 by HEN-Magonza [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4190206273/in/photostream/] [accessed 9 April 2024]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: painted, with gilded contours
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HEN-Magonza, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2009 by HEN-Magonza [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4190206273/in/photostream/] [accessed 9 April 2024]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Christoph - Mainz - Germany" -- the ruins of St. Christoph, today a memorial to the victims of bombings of WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 july 2017 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Christoph_-_Mainz_-_Germany_2017_(2).jpg] [accessed 9 April 2024]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cityseelsorge Mainz, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph Cityseelsorge Mainz [https://bistummainz.de/cityseelsorge/mainz/unsere-kirchen/st.-christoph/] [accessed 10 April 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Christoph in Mainz, hergerichteter Gottesdienstraum, dauerhaft frei erreichbar" -- the ruins of St. Christoph, today a memorial to the victims of bombings of WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © amras.wi, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2018 by amras.wi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Christoph_in_Mainz,_Innenansicht,_2018.JPG] [accessed 10 April 2024]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cityseelsorge Mainz, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph Cityseelsorge Mainz [https://bistummainz.de/cityseelsorge/mainz/unsere-kirchen/st.-christoph/] [accessed 10 April 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mainz, Christofsstraße, Kirche St. Christoph, Taufbecken (St. Christopher's Church, font)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HEN-Magonza, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2009 by HEN-Magonza [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/4190206273/in/photostream/] [accessed 9 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25420MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Christoph am Karmeliterplatz, Mainz [semi-ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: Hintere Christofsgasse 3-5 / Karmeliterplatz, 55116 Mainz, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Mainz is located about 30 km WSW of Frankfurt am Main. The church is located on the left bank of the Rhein, just S of the Theodor Heuss bridge and W of the B40
Font Location in Church: In a chapel of the semi-ruined church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
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: church of St. Christoph first mentioned in 893; tower built 1240; parish church documented 1272; re-built 1280-1330; modified 17th and 18thC; partial destruction in Allied bombing in 1942 and 1945
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Katholisch Mainz-City [https://bistummainz.de/cityseelsorge/mainz/unsere-kirchen/st.-christoph/] [accessed 9 April 2024] mentions a Gothic baptismal font in the Lombardic style here; iy further notes that Gutenberg was baptised here but in which font is uncertain ["Im Vorraum der St. Christophskirche befindet sich ein Taufstein aus gotischer Zeit im lombardischen Stil. Dass Johannes Gutenberg in dieser, seiner Pfarrkirche getauft wurde ist ziemlich sicher - ob es allerdings genau dieser Taufstein war, ist heute nicht mehr zu beweisen."] The font, which is now located in an active chapel inside the maintained ruins of the former parish church, consists of an octagonal (inside and out) basin with a rounded underbowl, the sides painted and decorated with gilded tracery, raised on a pedestal base with a central shaft and four seated lion set at 90-degree angles of it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.001853, 8.272175
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 0′ 6.67″ N, 8° 16′ 19.83″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal