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view of basin in context
Scene Description: on the left, the fragment of the basin as it was displayed in 2007 at the Dordrechts Museum -- on the right, the cleaned-up fragment on display in the Augustijnenkerk in 2008
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: image from Joost Limburg; requested source ID (21 June 2015)
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the basin of the old font being taken out of the Augustjnenkerk on its was to the Grote Kerk in May 2021; it had been on display in the Augustjnenkerk since 2008 -- the basin is owned by the Dordts Museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grote Kerk Dordrecht, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph i May 2021 in Grote Kerk Dordrecht [https://www.grotekerk-dordrecht.nl/2021/05/romaans-doopvont-geplaatst-in-de-grote-kerk/] [accessed 13 November 2022]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the basin of the old font being taken into the Grote Kerk in May 2021; it had been on display in the Augusjnenkerk since 2008 -- the basin is owned by the Dordts Museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grote Kerk Dordrecht, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph i May 2021 in Grote Kerk Dordrecht [https://www.grotekerk-dordrecht.nl/2021/05/romaans-doopvont-geplaatst-in-de-grote-kerk/] [accessed 13 November 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin in context
Scene Description: the basin of the old font on display in the Grote Kerk in May 2021; it had been on display in the Augusjnenkerk since 2008 -- the basin is owned by the Dordts Museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grote Kerk Dordrecht, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph i May 2021 in Grote Kerk Dordrecht [https://www.grotekerk-dordrecht.nl/2021/05/romaans-doopvont-geplaatst-in-de-grote-kerk/] [accessed 13 November 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the church in its present context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michiel1972, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 February 2008 by Michiel1972 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dordrecht_-_Augustijnenkerk.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19895DOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: the font is apparently owned by the Dordts Museum
Church/Chapel: Augustijnenkerk [original church unknown -- moved from the Augustijnenkerk to the Jeruzalemkapel in the Grote Kerk of Dordrecht 1st May 2021]]
Church Location: Dordrecht, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Zuid-Holland
Directions to Site: The Augustjnenkerk is located on Voorstraat 216, 3311 ET Dordrecht --
The Grote Kerk is located on Lange Geldersekade 2, 3311 CJ Dordrecht
Font Location in Church: font moved to the Jeruzalemkapel in the Grote Kerk
Century and Period: 13th - 16th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Haemstede? [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, for bringing this font to our attention, and to Pol Herman for his help in documenting its later whereabouts
Church Notes: church originally built at the end of the 13thC; currently owned by the Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk
Font Notes:
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Herman A. van Duinen [www.dewilligedame.nl/Bijdragen/Kerken/Augustijnenkerk/Romaanse doopvont in de Augustijnenkerk.htm] [accessed 21 June 2015] writes: "Een mogelijkheid is dat de doopvont afkomstig is uit een parochiekerk van één van de tijdens de Elisabethsvloed van 1421 verdronken dorpen. Het inwendige van de doopvont heeft een doorsnede van 75 cm en is 25 cm diep. [...] De doopvont was in bezit van de familie Stoop en stond in de tuin van de villa Renata (afgebroken in 1957) tegenover het station. In de oorlogsjaren (1940-1945) is de doopvont overgebracht naar de tuin van het Dordrechts Museum (gegevens: drs. Chris de Bruyn, museum van Gijn). Het Dordrechts Museum heeft de doopvont in 2008 in bruikleen afgestaan aan de Stichting Behoud Augustijnenkerk. [...] [...] In een kloosterkerk stond dan ook geen doopvont] [...] De Dordtse vont vertoont veel overeenkomst met de doopvont in de Hervormde Kerk in Haemstede. Deze vont bleef bewaard omdat het lange tijd dienst deed als drinkbak in een paardenstal. (gegevens: dr. Regnerus Steensma, specialist middeleeuwse kerken)" [=One possibility is that the font came originally from a parish church in one of the villages flooded by the Elisabethsvloed of 1421 [...] The font belonged to the Stoop family, and was located in the garden of their villa Renata (demolished in 1957) opposite the station. During WWII (1940-1945) the font was moved to the garden of the Dordrecht (data: Drs. Chris de Bruyn, museum van Gijn). In 2008 the Dordrecht Museum loaned the font to the Stichting Behoud Augustijnenkerk [...] In een kloosterkerk stond dan ook geen doopvont ]. [NB: the assumption that a monastery had no font is not sustainable, whether this font came originally from one or not]. The same source adds a comment form the distinguished medieval scholar Regnerus Steensma, who noted that the survival of this fragment can be accounted by the fact that it was used as water trough in a garden, and that this font shares similarities with that at the Hervormde Kerk in Haemstede. A fragment of the basin of a baptismal font, of unknown origin, now in the Augustijnenkerk in Dordrecht. The fragment is approximately the lower half of a basin of bucket shape; the sides have some ornamentation on them but the surface is too eroded to show anything other than some piping on it; the inner basin appears to have a small drain hole on the side, but this may have been done when used as a planter or water trough.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 24 July 2022) informs that this font was moved from the Augustijnenkerk to the Jeruzalemkapel in the Grote Kerk of Dordrecht 1st May 2021 [cf. ImagesArea for photos of the move]; he further notes that the font is owned by the Dordts Museum [cf. BSI entry for the Grote Kerk]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.815556, 4.669444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 56″ N, 4° 40′ 10″ E
UTM: 31U 615075 5741842
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * measurements of the fragment [source: