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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antek Podróży, [https://antekwpodrozy.pl/461-biala-opolskie-projekt-miasta-stojace-murem-przewodnik-po-atrakcjach] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: framing the figures of the Evangelists

Image Source: digital photograph by Antek Podróży, [https://antekwpodrozy.pl/461-biala-opolskie-projekt-miasta-stojace-murem-przewodnik-po-atrakcjach] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Biała (dodatkowa nazwa w j. niem. Zülz) – to miasto w woj. opolskim, w powiecie prudnickim / Zülz, polnisch Biała ist eine Stadt im Powiat Prudnicki in der polnischen Wojewodschaft Oppeln"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2011 by Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-09_Biała_02.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Biała Zülz Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche in Zülz (Oberschlesien)"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2017 by Daviidos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biała_Zülz_Church_of_the_Assumption_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(3).jpg] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche in Zülz (Oberschlesien)"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2017 by Daviidos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biała_Zülz_Church_of_the_Assumption_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(4).jpg] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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view of font

Scene Description: now used as holy-water stoup [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antek Podróży, [https://antekwpodrozy.pl/461-biala-opolskie-projekt-miasta-stojace-murem-przewodnik-po-atrakcjach] [accessed 18 January 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25796BIA

Church/Chapel: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Białej / Mariä-Himmelfahrts-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: ul. 1-go maja, Biala, Poland

Country Name: Poland

Location: Województwo Opolskie

Directions to Site: Located off (N) road 414, about 7 km NE of Prudnik, SW of highway E40 and Opole

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 16th century (?) [basin only],

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: 14thC church destroyed by fire 1544; re-built and expanded thereafter; restored and expanded 18thC; expanded 1936;

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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariä-Himmelfahrts-Kirche_(Zülz)] [accessed 18 January 2025] reports a former cylindrical baptismal font made of grey marble in the 16th century, re-purposed as holy-water stoup; the sides are decorated with images of the Evangelists ["Das ehemalige Taufbecken in zylindrischer Form aus grauem Marmor wird heute als Weihwasserbecken genutzt. Das Weihwasserbecken stammt aus dem 16. Jahrhundert und besitzt ein Flachrelief der Evangelisten.']

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.386169, 17.658902

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 23′ 10.21″ N, 17° 39′ 32.05″ E

UTM: 33U 689012 5584948

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round