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Scene Description: "Pankratiuskapelle (Konzen), Taufstein"
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: "Pankratiuskapelle (Konzen), Südostseite"
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Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2021 by Thomas Hummel
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Scene Description: "Pankratiuskapelle (Konzen), Innenraum links mit Marien-Statue und Taufstein"
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Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2021 by Thomas Hummel
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view of church interior - chancel and east eand
!["Konzen Pankratius Kapelle Innenraum" -- the font is partially visible behind the left [north] pillar of the chancel arch](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1260221022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Konzen Pankratius Kapelle Innenraum" -- the font is partially visible behind the left [north] pillar of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Caronna, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 21 September 2016 by Caronna
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design element - architectural - arch or niche - trefoiled - 8
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 July 2021 by Thomas Hummel
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 July 2021 by Thomas Hummel
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 26144PCU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Modern?
Church / Chapel Name: Pankratiuskapelle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras
Church Notes: chapel built on Roman foundations no later than 886, at about the same time as the Palatine Chapel in Aachen; an earlier wooden chapel may have existed there; the present church dates back to the mid-12thC; converted into a penitentiary chapel ca. 1400;
Church Address: Kirchbruch 11, 52156 Monschau, Germany
Site Location: Köln, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the B258, in the municipality and 6 km NNE of Monschau, near the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Town/City Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Konzen
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in [http://www.hammer-eifel.de/Konzen/Konzen.htm] [accessed 22 February 2026] states that the foundations and the baptismal font date to the Carolingian-Frankish period: "die Grundmauern sowie der Taufstein werden ebenfalls in die karolingisch - fränkische Zeit datiert" [NB: the font does not; it looks modern].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 305468 5607424
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.586273, 6.251853
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 35′ 10.58″ N, 6° 15′ 6.67″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on the lower half of the base
Inscription Text: "SCRIPTVRA / NOVA ET / INTROIRE IN / ALT NISI / SPIRITV / REGVM / QVIS / SANCTO DEI.".
Inscription Notes: the inscription looks modern, like the font itself; some of the letters are larger than the rest [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]