Guttecoven / Göttekaove

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animal - mammal - quadruped - couchant-gardant - 8

Scene Description: four pairs of confronted quadrupeds [lions?]

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human figure - head - 4

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the old church

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken November 1963 by G.Th. Delemarre [Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_naar_het_zuid-westen_-_Guttecoven_-_20094994_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19776GUT

Church/Chapel: Sint-Nicolaaskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Kerkstraat 7, 6143 BC Guttecoven, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A2/E25, 5 km WNW of Sittard, in the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, in the narrow land space between Belgium (W) and Germany (E)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, at the W end

Date: ca. 1150-1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [lower base only][composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Furnaux [Ghislain]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: old church, originally attached to the abbey of Susteren; replaced in 1965

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

An entry in the Jaarboek van Limburgs Geschied- en Oudheidkundliche Genootschap (vol. 5, 1868: 458), listed under the heading "Voici quelques données concernant des actes de vandalisme qui se commettent encore de nos jours dans le Limbourg aux fonts baptismaux", notes: "A Guttecoven, près de Sittard, se trouvent le bassin et le pied d'un magnifique font baptismal, servant de pavé devant la porte de la maison du sacristain. C'est une œuvre en style roman d'un grand mérite, ornée de dragons et d'animaux entourés de rinceaux. Nous croyons que cet objet d'art ancien pourrait être facilement restauré et replacé dans l'église." A baptismal font here is mentioned in the Bulletin de l'Institut Archéologique Liégeois (vol. 9, 1868: 41), in the context of the church of Saint-Denis et Saint-Nicolas at Gothem, but no details are given about the Guttecoven font. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the lower base of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Furneaux, made of limestone (calcaire viséen ou dévonien) ca. 1150-1160; it has been built into a later font in this church; the font consists of a round basin with four protruding heads at 90-degree angles, raised on a five-column base; the lower base contains a pair of confronted crouching quadrupeds, their heads turned to the viewer. Ghislain (ibid.) remarks their similarity to those on the font at Evin (Pas-de-Calais) (ca. 1140?), and suggests these are a slightly later imitation.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 697728 5655059

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen ou dévonien) [lower base only]

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009