Leeuwarden No. 1 / Leewarden

INFORMATION

FontID: 02566LEE
Museum and Inventory Number: Leeuwarden Christiania Museum
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinats given for the museum] Wilhelminaplein 92, 8911 BS Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Friesland
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 15th - 16th century[Enlart], Romanesque? / Late Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: Rostock, Hildesheim in the general shape
A sister font to those at Hildesheim Dom and Rostock Marienkirche; bucket-shaped basin with a tall conical lid similar to Rostock's, all mounted on four figures. [details of iconographic program to be added]. Font originally "aus der Umgegend von Leeuwarden", now in the museum at Leeuwarden itself. (Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale, 1991-1998: 78). Enlart's reference is confusing (Enlart, 1902). Davies (1962: 68) describes it as made of wood and dated to the 15th or 16th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.1996, 5.79444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 11′ 58.56″ N, 5° 47′ 39.98″ E
UTM: 31U 686649 5898121

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 12th-13th century
Material: metal, bronze

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; r["References"]