Emmen / Em'm / Emne / Empne

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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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: much damaged now

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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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: rather geometric, with round arch-heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - vine

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detail

Scene Description: the Essen museum code is visible on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin

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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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: artist's rendition of 1855

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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view of church exterior - southwest view

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 font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19913EMM

Museum and Inventory Number: [at one point in the museum at Essen]

Church/Chapel: PKN Grote of Sint-Pancratiuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]

Church Location: Schoolstraat 5, 7811 XX Emmen, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 591 222 159

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

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

Font Location in Church: back in the church since 1988

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Sögel Type II [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: Westerbork and Merzen

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: church said to exist here in the 8thC; destroyed 1228?; present church 1856 with part of the tower 12th-13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.785153, 6.894179

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 6.55″ N, 6° 53′ 39.04″ E

UTM: 32U 357986 5850450

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

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; r["References"]