Bad Munstereifel No. 1 / Bad Münstereifel / Monasterium in Eiflia / Münstereifel

Noted and illustrated by Martin M. Miles in Ippernity [https://www.ipernity.com/doc/323415/45836504] [accessed 22 August 2024]: "Only a part of the remarkable baptismal font suvived the times. It is carved from "bluestone", that probably came from Namur or Tournai. Exactly this type of font (with four heads) was very popular in Northern France in the 12th/13th century." A fragment of the basin of a baptismal font has been re-mounted on a later or unrelated base; the basin from which the fragment survives was of limstone, looking very much like Tournai limestone; it was circular, with slightly splaying sides decorated with human heads at 90-degree angles, of which only two remain; between the heads are incised large circles, one of which as a Maltese cross inscribed. No cover present.