Oirlo / Oldere

The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed has a photograph of probably around 1920 that shows a fragment of an old baptismal font [of this church?], standing on a ledge in what appears to be the churchyard; the fragment is a section of a round basin with a protruding human head; it is likely to have been a round font of the Mosan type with four heads protruding at 90-degree angles. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 2 February 2022) refers to an exchange he had with Ton Boots, a local historian on 14 April 2021, in which the latter describes a cylindrical object 50 cm tal and 50 cm in outer diameter, which he believes to be part of the medieval font [="Hij is vrijwel zeker van de oude doopvont want in deze tuin lag vroeger ook het deel van de kuip."]