Herpen / Hèrrepe

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showing Luke's winged ox in the centre holding a book
Scene Description: showing Luke's winged ox in the centre holding a book
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

showing Matthew's angel in the centre; the partially visible left panel has John's eagle
Scene Description: showing Matthew's angel in the centre; the partially visible left panel has John's eagle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of font

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilburg University, 2011
Image Source: digital image of an engraving in R.A.A. van Claarenbeek. 1850 in the Databank Topografisch-Historische Atlas, Tilburg University [https://docserver.uvt.nl/tha/0901/0901-024.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

human figure - head

one of four; this one between Luke's ox and Mark's lion
Scene Description: one of four; this one between Luke's ox and Mark's lion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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human figure - head

one of four; this one between Mark's lion and John's eagle
Scene Description: one of four; this one between Mark's lion and John's eagle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - head

one of four; this one between Matthew's angel and Luke's ox
Scene Description: one of four; this one between Matthew's angel and Luke's ox
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

human figure - head

one of four; this one between John's eagle and Matthew's angel
Scene Description: one of four; this one between John's eagle and Matthew's angel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

under each of the heads, forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: under each of the heads, forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with book

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with book

showing the restoration and repair work
Scene Description: showing the restoration and repair work
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with book

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburgh
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with book

the right area of the panel showing the restoration and repair work
Scene Description: the right area of the panel showing the restoration and repair work
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - upper view - detail

an old lead plug ny the side of one of the four heads; it would have served as anchorage for the old cover hardware
Scene Description: an old lead plug ny the side of one of the four heads; it would have served as anchorage for the old cover hardware
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - detail

artist's rendering of the symbols on three of the basin sides
Scene Description: artist's rendering of the symbols on three of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: 240 fig. 15
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view of basin

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: 236 fig. 1
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4

John's and Matthew's seen here on the sides of the font; Mark's and Luke's on the added projection below
Scene Description: John's and Matthew's seen here on the sides of the font; Mark's and Luke's on the added projection below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J.P. Tesson (?) in Hermans (1855)
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view of church exterior - north view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2007 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herpen,_l'église_Saint_Sébastien.JPG] [accessed 11 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of church exterior - southwest view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken February 1897, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_vanuit_het_zuid-westen_-_Herpen_-_20109120_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

design element - motifs - spur

on the bases of the outer colonnettes -- this area of the base appears too well jkept with very sharp angles, suspicious in a 13thC font; restored? (re-tooled / re-carved / replaced?)
Scene Description: on the bases of the outer colonnettes -- this area of the base appears too well jkept with very sharp angles, suspicious in a 13thC font; restored? (re-tooled / re-carved / replaced?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

forming the bases of the columns
Scene Description: forming the bases of the columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of font cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00406HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional? / Early Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Church / Chapel Name: Rooms-Katholieke Sint.Sebastiaankerk [aka Kerk van Sint-Sebastiaan en Sint-Hubertus]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sebastian
Church Address: Rogstraat 2, 5373AT Herpen, Netherlands
Site Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Oss, between Oss and Nijmegen [between 1941 - 2003 it was in the municpality of Ravenstein]
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font (how much of the base is original?)
Font Notes:
A report delivered to the 13th general meeting of the 'Provinciaal genootschap van kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noordbrabant' by the then librarian and secretary of the society, Dr. C.R. Hermans, on 6 July 1849, reports the 'in loco' discovery of a 12th- or 13th century baptismal font in the church at Herpen, and refers to another such discovery a few years earlier at the ancient parish church at Auland [source: Handelingen van het Provinciaal genootschap van kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noordbrabant (vol. 5, 35)]. Listed with measurements and a drawing in Ligtenberg (1915). Noted in Tollenaere (1957) as a font decorated with symbols of the Apostles [i.e., Evangelists] on the sides and four female heads. Noted in Drake (2002), who challenges Tollenaere's identification of the heads as female, and mentions the four Evangelists' symbols holding open books. The font consists of a round basin with sides tapering to a rounded unnerbowl, with human heads at 90-degree angles, and the symbols of the four Evangelists on the sides between; beneath each of the four heads is a large leaf with a roll moulding below; these serve as capitals of the four detached colonnettes that, together with the broad central shaft constitute the support for the basin; the square lower base has the moulded bases for the five columns. The whole font has been restored; is the base modern? re-tooled or re-carved?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his help in documenting this font, and his photographs of the font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 682253 5739021
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.77236, 5.641634
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 46′ 20.5″ N, 5° 38′ 29.88″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 86.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 101 - 125 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Hermans (1855) gives: "13 p. lang en ruim 9 p. hoog" [1 palm = 9.6 cm] / ** Ligtenberg (1915: 164)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: conical with handles halfway up the sides; foliated top and orb-and-cross finial; modern

REFERENCES

  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 43, 45 fn46, 176
  • Hermans, C.R., "Vlugtige blikken in de kerkelijke archaeologie van Noordbrabant", Jaargang 1, De Dietsche Warande, 1855, pp. 180-201; p. 193 and pl. 1
  • 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; p. 164, 236 fig. 1, 240 fig. 15
  • Tollenaere, Lisbeth, "La sculpture sur pierre dans l'ancien diocèse de Liége à l'époque romane", 4e Série, Fascicule II., Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie, 1957