Meerssen No. 1 / Meersen
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Results: 11 records
BH01: human figure - male - head
Scene Description: on one of the alternate sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Loek Tangel 28 April 1989, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20274977_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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BH02: human figure - male - head
Scene Description: on one of the alternate sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Loek Tangel 28 April 1989, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20274978_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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BH03: human figure - female - head - wearing headdress
Scene Description: on one of the alternate sides of the basin -- seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1912, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20152480_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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BH04: human figure - female - head
Scene Description: on one of the alternate sides of the basin -- seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1912, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20152480_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
Scene Description: notice also the large crack in the stone below; the left side appears to hev been repaired with cement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1912, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20152480_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romaine, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meerssen-Basiliek_(2).JPG] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2007 by DNEA1979 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meerssen_-_Interieur_Basiliek_van_het_Heilig_Sacrament.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken October 1989 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Meerssen_-_20307020_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken October 1989 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Meerssen_-_20307019_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was, probably disused, in 1912; the stem of the original base is missing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1912, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20152480_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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view of font base
Scene Description: the stem is a modern replacement; is the lower base also modern, or the old one now re-tooled?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken by Loek Tangel 28 April 1989, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biechtstoel-doopvont-wijwatervat_-_Meerssen_-_20274976_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19896MEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Meerssener Basilika zum Heiligen Sakrament [aka Sint-Bartholomeuskerk]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Sacrament & St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located NE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: many such in the Mosan area
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of the characteristic Mosan limestone; it consists of an octagonal basin with protruding heads on every other side, two male and two female; the font was disused and missing the stem of the base when it was photographed in 1912, but a later photograph of 1989 shows the font in a different location, provided with a modern stem and a font cover; the octagonal lower base showing in 1989 is of much the same shape as the one in the 1912 photograph, so it have been simply re-tooled. The wooden cover is modern, of octagonal pyramidal shape with an orb-and-cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.883717, 5.755027
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 1.38″ N, 5° 45′ 18.1″ E
UTM: 31U 693787 5640510
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Mosan)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]