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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of font in context
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view of font
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing the extent of the damage to the upper rim, and the metal baptismal dish insert
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: two sets
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: rather geometric, with round arch-heads
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - vine
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © R. Broekhuijzen, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2012 by R. Broekhuijzen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmen,_Grote_of_Pancratiuskerk.JPG] [accessed 1 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: artist's rendition of 1855
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1855 lithograph in Jan Reijnders (1823-1889) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grote_Kerk_Emmen_1855.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: much damaged now, but the legs and the tail over the rump are still quite discernible in this one
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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detail
Scene Description: the Essen museum code is visible on the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: much damaged now
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19913EMM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Sögel Type II [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: Westerbork and Merzen
Museum: [at one point in the museum at Essen]
Church / Chapel Name: PKN Grote of Sint-Pancratiuskerk
Font Location in Church: back in the church since 1988
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Notes: church said to exist here in the 8thC; destroyed 1228?; present church 1856 with part of the tower 12th-13thC
Church Address: Schoolstraat 5, 7811 XX Emmen, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 591 222 159
Site Location: Drenthe, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N381, S of the town centre, N of Bargeres, about 50 km SSE of Groningen
Historical Region: Zuidenveld
Additional Comments: damaged font / disused font? (was at one point in the museum at Essen; returned to the church in 1988)
Font Notes:
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Noted with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a Romanesque sandstone font that was at the museum in Assen at the time [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in P.W.J. v. d. Berg's Ouder doopvonten en hun gebruik, in the Nieuwe Drentsche Volksalmanak, 56e Jaar (1938) [doopvonten en hun gebruik.pdf] [accessed 7 April 2022]; the caption in tthis illustration located the font in the "Prov. Museum - Assen". Listed in Drake (2002) as a Sögel Type II, Bentheim baptismal font. Historisch Emmen [www.historisch-emmen.nl/centrum/marktplein/mp26-f.htm] [accessed 1 January 2016] informs that the font had been missing at one point from the church, probably around the time of the construction of the new church in 1856; it is known that the font has served for years as a planter in the garden of villa Echtenstein in Nieuw Amsterdam; its owner, Hora van Holthe tot Echten, donated it to the museum in Assen. The font was restored to the church of Emmen in 1988. The font is damaged at the upper rim, with at least one large chunk missing from what appears to have been an anchoring spot for an old cover; the lions of the base are also badly damaged, No cover present. The font uses a metal dish inserted in the stone basin for baptisms.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 357986 5850450
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.785153, 6.894179
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 47′ 6.55″ N, 6° 53′ 39.04″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Depth: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Ligtenberg (1915: 163)
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 178
- Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 163