Nederweert No. 2 / Merefelt / Ni-jwieërt / Weert van den nedersten eynde

Image copyright © Alfons Bruekers, Stichting Geschiedschrijving Nederweert, 2021

Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 December 2021)

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 November 2008 by A ansems [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lambertuskerk_Nederweert.jpg] [accessed 22 March 2015]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alfons Bruekers, Stichting Geschiedschrijving Nederweert, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2020 by Alfons Bruekers, Stichting Geschiedschrijving Nederweert

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 December 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19779NED
Church/Chapel: Sint-Lambertus Kerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Kerkstraat 58, 6031 CJ Nederweert, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 495 625 887
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N266, N of the N275, 5 km NE of Weert, about 30 km SE of Eindhoven
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1698
Century and Period: 17th century(late),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font, and to Alfons Bruekers, Stichting Geschiedschrijving Nederweert, for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: original church 1467; burned down in the 16th and 17thC; re-built 1840s; restored 1980s
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: "Le font baptismal de Nederweert se trouve dans la nouvelle église d'Ohé et Laak érigée en 1860". The entry for this church in the Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/nederweert/lambertus], the entry in the Rijksmonumente [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/30315/sint-lambertuskerk/nederweert/] and the entry in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Nederweert,_Kerkstraat_58_-_Lambertus] [accessed 28 December 2021] all report a limestone baptismal font of 1698 with a copper [brass] cover. The donnor's name, Hendrick Deenkens, is given in another source.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.286069, 5.748356
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 17′ 9.85″ N, 5° 44′ 54.08″ E
UTM: 31U 691647 5685225

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: one source mentions the text with the donnor's name is still readable [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial