Zutphen No. 2
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Results: 11 records
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern replacement font at Borculo's Sint Juriskerk
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2003 by A.T. (Ton) van der Wal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_koor,_doopvont_-_Borculo_-_20329382_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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view of font
![as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150531025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: there is a small drain hole visible on the left side of the bottom of the inner well; it was probably done when the font was used as water-trough in a garden
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin
Scene Description: in the context of the garden where it served as water-trough; much damaged, and missing a considerable part of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © E.H. ter Kuile, 1958
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by E.H. ter Kuile (1958) [www.dbnl.org/tekst/kuil005kwar01_01/kuil005kwar01_01_0067.php] [accessed 31 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: "Hervormde kerk" the church at Terborg, also known as "Sint-Joris en Barbarakerk"; the other possible -though not likely- origin of the font now in the Zutphen museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1952, in Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren_naar_het_zuiden_-_Terborg_-_20207414_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Sint Joriskerk, Borculo; the font now in the Zutphen museum may have originated in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Michielverbeek [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borculo,_Joriskerk_foto7_2010-07-18_18.03.JPG] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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view of font in context
![as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original] -- the large orifice corresponds to a small drain hole on left side of the bottom of the inner well; it was probably done when the font was used as water-trough in a garden](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150531030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original] -- the large orifice corresponds to a small drain hole on left side of the bottom of the inner well; it was probably done when the font was used as water-trough in a garden
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
![as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original] -- notice the large damage area at the bottom, and the missing part of the upper rim](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150531029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: as exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands, in May 2015 [NB: the pedestal base is not original] -- notice the large damage area at the bottom, and the missing part of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19886ZUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font Type Hage 1? [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: Hage (Germany} [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen, Netherlands
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Walburga [aka Walpurgis, Vaubourg] [originally dedicated to St. Peter & St. Walburga
Previous Font Location(s): [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] 's Gravenhof 4, 7201 DN Zutphen, Nederland
Site Location: Gelderland, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Borculo is in the municipality of Berkelland, Gelderland -- Terborg is in the municipality of Oude IJsselstreek, 7 km SE of Doetinchem -- Zutphen is SE of Apeldoorn, on the eastern banks of the Ijseel river
Additional Comments: disused font / re-cycled font (served for years as water-trough in a garden; later moved to a museum)
Font Notes:
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An e-mail communication of 28 May 2015 from Joost Limburg to BSI notes: "The origin of the font in the museum in Zutphen seems to be uncertain. Ter Kuile writes in 1958 [www.dbnl.org/tekst/kuil005kwar01_01/kuil005kwar01_01_0007.php] [accessed 31 May 2015] that in a notary's garden in Borkelo (now Borculo) there was a font that is said to be from the village of Terborg, which Ter Kuile thinks unlikely because Terborg became an independant parish only in 1382. Limburg [ibid.] adds: "Steensma (2007) refers to Ter Kuile, adding that the font went to the museum in 1967. Ligtenberg doesn't mention it at all. [...] It appears that, like many other fonts, this basin spent a part of its life serving as a water trough in a garden; the base is probably lost." The surviving basin, although it has lost its upper rim, appears to be similar to the one at Hage (Germany), categorised in Drake (2002) as "Bentheimer School, Type Hage 1".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for bringing this font to our attention, and for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 308101 5780273
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.139586, 6.1957
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 22.51″ N, 6° 11′ 44.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Benheim sandstone)
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p 76
- Steensma, Regnerus, "Bentheimer doopvonten en wijwaterbekkens in Nederland", 23, Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek, 2007, pp. 1-18.