Groenlo

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: edited detail of an undated photograph in the Beeldbank Stadsmuseum Groenlo [DB no.: 1226] [www.museumgroenlo.nl/cgi-bin/beeldbank.pl?ident=1226] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

Scene Description: notice how the lower tips of the fans wrap around the lower end of the basin

Image Source: edited detail of an undated photograph in the Beeldbank Stadsmuseum Groenlo [DB no.: 1226] [www.museumgroenlo.nl/cgi-bin/beeldbank.pl?ident=1226] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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human figure - seated - 4

Image Source: edited detail of an undated photograph in the Beeldbank Stadsmuseum Groenlo [DB no.: 1226] [www.museumgroenlo.nl/cgi-bin/beeldbank.pl?ident=1226] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken May 1923, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_naar_het_zuid-westen_-_Groenlo_-_20091804_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1952, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_vanuit_het_westen_-_Groenlo_-_20091808_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font fragment opposite the pulpit in the traditional Duth Reformed Church arrangement -- the font had been returned to the church from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in 1951

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1952, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Groenlo_-_20091822_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font with the metal baptismal dish with which it is now used back in the church

Image Source: digital photograph in the Oude Calixtus Kerk [www.lalucas.nl/04kerken/map15eib/03groenlo/calixtus.htm] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: [NB: the original photograph of this image was probably taken when the font was displayed in the museum, between 1860 and 1951]

Image Source: edited detail of an undated photograph in the Beeldbank Stadsmuseum Groenlo [DB no.: 1226] [www.museumgroenlo.nl/cgi-bin/beeldbank.pl?ident=1226] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Kuile (1958: pl. 269)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 179 fig. 32)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the chancel, never far from the pulpit

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_van_het_koor_-_Groenlo_-_20380430_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: probably 1929, while on display "in zaal 176" of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, as indicated in the caption

Image Source: digital image of a 1929(?) photograph in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, reproduced in their De collectiopstelling van de Middeleeuwen in het Rijksmuseum (p. 58)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00359AMS

Museum and Inventory Number: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Karol Zaal)

Church/Chapel: Oude Calixtuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Calixtus

Church Location: Mattelierstraat 5, 7141 BP Groenlo, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located off the N18-N319 crossroads, just W of the border with Germany, 70-80 km ENE of Arnhem

Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly Bistum Münster]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church since 1951

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge group [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: Vaasen?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 27 December 2015] for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: church started ca. 1275; present church ca. 1520; part of the church now has a liturgical use, while another part is used for cultural events

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A drawing of the Groenlo font, now at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, shows a basin with a very broad band of geometric design [probably fan-frieze] like stylized palm-leaf motifs; the plain underbowl rests on a base which has four sitting (?) human figures; the font ends in a square (?) lower base or plinth ("Der romanische Taufstein der Pfarrkirche zu Neuenkirchen", in Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale, 1991-1998, XI (1898), p. 75). Noted with measurements and illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915), who locates it at a museum in Amsterdam at the time. E.H. ter Kuile (1958) refers to the entry in Ligtenberg [cf. supra] and reports that the font is back in the church. Drake (2002) notes: "Bases of Berge fonts, type unknown, are at Groenlo and Olst"; the reference is to one of the subgroups Drake uses for the classification of Bentheim fonts [NB: "Berge" is subdivided into Type I, Type II, Variant and Type III]. The Parish web site informs that the font of Bentheim sandstone is probably late-12th century; ceded to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 1860, where iit was displayed ca. 1909 in its Carolingian section and dated 11th-century; a request for the return of th font to the church succedded in 1951, and the font fragment is used in conjunction with a 18th-19th century metal baptismal dish [="Romaans Doopvont in Bentheimer zandsteen. Gezien de vormgeving kan het doopvont gedateerd worden op het eind van de twaalfde eeuw. En heeft al dienst gedaan in de voorgangers van het huidige kerkgebouw. In 1860 werd de doopvont door de toenmalige kerkvoogd, dr. LW Lasonder, afgestaan aan het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Rond 1909 stond de vont opgesteld in de Karolingische afdeling van het nieuwe hoofdgebouw en werd het als 11de eeuws gedateerd. De rede waarom het doopvont werd afgestaan is onduidelijk, mogelijk werd de afgekorte rest van het vont niet meer als zodanig gebruikt (er hoort oorspronkelijk nog een draagstel onder te zitten). In 1949 werd werd tijdens de restauratie van de kerk door D.W. S Hilferink een verzoek gericht aan het ministerie van OK&W om de doopvont terug te laten keren naar Groenlo. Dit gebeurde in 1951, nu dient het vont als drager voor de koperen doopschaal die dateert uit de tweede helft van de 18de of begin 19de eeuw."] The Beeldbank Stadsmuseum Groenlo [www.museumgroenlo.nl] [accessed 1 January 2016] has a photograph which appears to have been taken at the time when the font was on display outside the church [1860-1851].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.042344, 6.617986

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 32.44″ N, 6° 37′ 4.75″ E

UTM: 32U 336639 5768426

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm* [diameter of the fragment]

Basin Depth: 22 cm* [depth of the fragment]

Basin Total Height: 15 cm* [height of the fragment]

Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm* [height of the fragment]

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.

Kuile, E.H. ter, Het kwartier van Zutfen, Den Haag: Staatsdrukkerij- en Uitgeverijbedrijf / Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, 1958

Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; r["References"]