Wanderath / Baar-Wanderath / Wambrechtrode
Image copyright © Robert Payne, 2011
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The old church at the centre of the German village of Wanderath."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Payne, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Robert Payne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfarrkirche_Wanderath.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Valerius in Wanderath, Ortsteil von de:Baar (Eifel), linkes Seitenschiff, Hauptschiff der Vorgängerkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wanderath_St._Valerius_Seitenschiff164.JPG] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: partial view of the font and its cover at the east end of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 May 2010 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wanderath_St._Valerius_Seitenschiff164.JPG] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font and cover at the east end of the north aisle
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 25575WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Valerius
Church Patron Saints: St. Valerius
Church Location: Kirchweg 5, Wanderath, 56729 Baar, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off road 258, 12-13 km WNW of Mayen, about 35 km W of Koblenz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle, E end
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th 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: original church ca. 1300, a chapel of ease to Nachtsheim parish church; modified ca. 1500; enlarged 1530; became independent parish 1655; expanded 1896/1897; expanded 1921/1922;
Font Notes:
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Noted in Frans Kugler's, Kleine Schriften und Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, (Volume 1, 1854, page 254) as a simple Gothic baptismal font made of Nieder-Mendiger stone ["Ein einfach hübscher gotischer Taufstein aus Nieder-Mendiger Stein"]. Listed in Glesius (2013) as a late-Medieval font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped with finial
REFERENCES
Glesius, Angelika, "Spätgotischer Kirchenbau im alten Erzbistum Trier", 2013