Breda

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design element - architectural - canopy

Scene Description: supported on four square columns with capitals and bases, and a round baluster-shaped colonnette inside

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF5976.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a band all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF5976.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 October 2010 by Rainer Halama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda-Liebfrauenkirche-Taufbecken58558.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: three large sets towards the top of the cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 October 2010 by Rainer Halama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda-Liebfrauenkirche-Taufbecken58558.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF5976.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF9419.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - dolphin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopkapel,_detail_doopvont_-_Breda_-_20363559_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "De grote kerk met de toren van vóór 1694. In dat jaar werd de toren op 11 mei door de bliksem getroffen en brandde af, waarna de toren in zijn huidige vorm is herbouwd" ["The large church with the tower before 1694. In that year the tower was hit on May 11 by lightning and burned down, and the tower was rebuilt in its present form." [Google Translate]]

Image Source: digital image 7 November 2013 of an engraving by Thomas Ernst van Goor (1688-1756) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda_-_Grote_of_Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk_voor_1694.jpg] [accessed 31 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2010 by Ralf Roletschek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010-05-22-breda-by-RalfR-17.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: a fanciful engraving showing a north view of the church exterior in June 1648

Image Source: digital image on an engraving in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravure_van_kerk_gezien_vanuit_het_noorden_-_Breda_-_20040236_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of church interior - baptistery

Image Source: B&W photograph taken April 1959 by G.TH. Delemarre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopkapel_-_Breda_-_20040289_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Rainer Halama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda-Liebfrauenkirche58563.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2011 by Ad Meskens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda_Grote_Kerk_Organ_2.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF9419.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF9420.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2015 by G.Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Grote_Kerk_Breda_DSCF9419.JPG] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 October 2010 by Rainer Halama [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breda-Liebfrauenkirche-Taufbecken58558.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05151BRE

Church/Chapel: Grote kerk / Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kerkplein 2, 4811 XT Breda, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 76 521 8267

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Brabant, Brabant

Directions to Site: Near the border with Belgium, NE of Antwerp

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery

Date: 1540

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Joos de Backer

Church Notes: original wooden church ca. 1100 dedicated to St. Mary; stone church documented here by 1269; became collegiate 1303; present church started 1410; completed 1547; current tower spire 1702; restored 1843, 1993-1998

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Mentioned in Bond (1908) in relation to the crane of "great development" required to raise the heavy brass font cover. There is no mention of the font itself. An indirect reference to the font at Breda Cathedral appears in a letter to the editor of Notes and Queries (1860) from a J.H. Van Lennep; the letter refers to a Ducth citizen, professor L.G. Visscher "(born, March 1, 1799, ob. Jan 26, 1859); it said that Visscher, by way of a joke, used to call himself a citizen of London, because baptism been administered to him at the font of Breda cathedral, to which King William III. of England had attached the privilege of London citizenship." The metal font and its tall cover are located in the baptistery of this church, and it is the work of Joos de Backer, from Antwerp, dated 1540; the basin is of quatrefoil shape at he top, the sides tapering in graded mouldings to a gadrooned underbowl that has eight animal heads with rings in their mouths; stands of a thin stem with multiple mouldings, some of them bearing foliated patterns; the lower base is quatrefoiled, and looks somewhat like a mirror image of the basin: gadrooned pattern on the top, graded moulding below; stands of a modern stone plinth. Tall cover of several volumes; the lower volume picks up the general quatrefoil shape from the basin and lower base, and the gadrooned pattern reappears here as well supporting a canopy on four square colums patterned with vegetal motifs; unlike other such covers, it has no figural decoration and the canopy houses a round colonnette instead; the upper half of the cover has a series of pronounced mouldings on a stem that bears vegetal decoration in some parts. Some sources appear to disagree on the metal composition, copper or brass [NB: Rijksmonumenten.nl gives copper as the metal of the font]. The upper end of the cover is secured to the horizontal arm of a all-mounted crane; the crane itself is made of metal and has open-work decoration.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.58889, 4.77547

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 20″ N, 4° 46′ 31.69″ E

UTM: 31U 622996 5716808

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, copper? / brass?

Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1540

Material: metal, copper? / brass?

Apparatus: a crane of "great development"

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Van Lennep, J.H., "Baptismal font in Breda Cathedral", 2nd series IX (Jan. 28, 1860), Notes and Queries, 1860, pp. 64; r["References"]