Rolde

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: Overzicht van de zuidoostgevel"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2022

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_van_de_zuidoostgevel_-_Rolde_-_20384405_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 January 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: the replica of the Vries Bentheim font, inside Rldekerk

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aaluka, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2008 by Aaluka, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Rolde,_Kerkbrink_5_-_Jacobuskerk] [accessed 4 January 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: " Doopvont Jacobuskerk Rolde" -- the replica of the Vries Bentheim font, inside Rldekerk

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fransvannes, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2021 by Fransvannes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Jacobuskerk_Rolde.jpg] [accessed 4 January 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing inside Rldekerk, in the corner, the replica of the Vries Bentheim font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aaluka, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2008 by Aaluka, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Rolde,_Kerkbrink_5_-_Jacobuskerk] [accessed 4 January 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10852GEB
Church/Chapel: PKN Jacobuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Kerkbrink 5, 9451 AL Rolde, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 592 241 424
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Drenthe
Directions to Site: Located N of the N33, 6 km E of Assen, about 25 km S of Groningen
Font Location in Church: inside the church
Date: 1680
Century and Period: 17th century(late),
Cognate Fonts: a plaster cast of the original font at Vries in this church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: first wooden church ca. 900; several re-buildings thereafter; present church 15thC; re-built 1854; restored 1960s to pre-1854 forms-- listed church [Rijksmonument no. 32699; tower 32700]
The Roldekerk site [https://www.rolderkerk.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Folder-a4-gevouwen_website.pdf] [accessed 4 January 2022] reports a pulpit of 1677 and a wooden font of 1680 in this church, as well as a replica of the Bentheim sand stone Romanesque baptismal font at Vries ["De preekstoel en het houten doopvont zijn van respectievelijk 1677 en 1680. Het grote doopvont is een replica van het doopvont in Vries. Het origineel is van Bentheimer zandsteen en stamt uit het midden van de dertiende eeuw."] The wooden font from 1680 consists of a hexagonal basin with vertical sides, the panels carved with varied decoration, the underbowl with graded moulding; baluster-type slender stem and four scroll-rib legs as lower base. Octagonal dome cover with acorn finial; the whole of one date,1680, presumably.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.988814, 6.645675
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 59′ 19.73″ N, 6° 38′ 44.43″ E
UTM: 32U 341972 5873619

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1680?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]