Voerendaal / Voelender

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2

Scene Description: on two sides of the basin; each different from the other

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 18 November 1991 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_TOREN,_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Voerendaal_-_20272145_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: on one side of the basin

Image Source: drawings in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 16)

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animal - reptile - snake?

Scene Description: or is it a turtle's head? -- seen here on the left of the image, i.e., the north side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

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design element - motifs - roundel

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1981 by Loek Tangel, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Voerendaal_-_20244624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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human figure - head

Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1981 by Loek Tangel, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_doopvont_-_Voerendaal_-_20244625_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: seen here in the centre of the image, the east side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: drawings in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 16)

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voerendaal-Kerk_(2).JPG] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 November 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voerendaal-Kerk_(3).JPG] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 November 1991 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Voerendaal_-_20272131_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 November 1991 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT,_SCHIP_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Voerendaal_-_20272138_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font and cover - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1981 by Loek Tangel, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Voerendaal_-_20244624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the tower space

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 18 November 1991 by van Galen, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_TOREN,_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Voerendaal_-_20272149_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1981 by Loek Tangel, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_toren_met_doopvont_-_Voerendaal_-_20244623_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context - east side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19918VOE

Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Laurentiuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Kerkplein 37, 6367 EN Voerendal, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: Located N of the A79, W of the E314, ENE of Maastricht

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 30 January 2016] for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: original church here documented 1049

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who notes that the base, "een mergelblok" is a replacement, and gives the location as being beneath the tower at the time. Listed in Drake (2002) as one of a group of Mosan fonts on multi-support bases. Baptismal font consisting of a round basin decorated with heads at 90-degree angles; three of the heads are human but the forth, on the north side, looks like a snake's or a turtle's; between the heads, on two (?) sides are dragons passant, one side has a lion passant and the fourth side is decorated with circles; the base consists of a broad central shaft with four attached colonnettes at 90-degree angles, all with moulded capitals and bases; on a short square plinth; the whole of the base appears to be a later replacement. Low-dome octagonal metal cover with marked arrises, four ring handles and an orb-and-cross finial; date unknown, perhaps 19th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.88305, 5.927119

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 58.98″ N, 5° 55′ 37.63″ E

UTM: 31U 705893 5640902

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Total Height: 35 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 102 x 120 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: metal, copper?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal low dome with marked arrises and ring handles; orb-and-cross finial

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"]

Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Drenthe en Overijssel", 16 (1996) and 16a (1997), Bulletin Stichting Drents-Overijsselse Kerken, 1996-1997