Bolsward / Boalsert
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037508_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: the only one that appears to have survived is the female head, wearing head-dress, on the nothwest side of the basin, seen here on the left; the other heads have lost their faces which have been replaced with a plain rounded stone, as seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037508_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of basin - east side
![[NB: orientation is approximate] -- notice the repaired heads have no faces](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150704020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate] -- notice the repaired heads have no faces
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037510_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of basin - north side
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037508_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of basin - west side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150704019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037509_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinikerk_Bolsward.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "De Martinitsjerke yn Boalsert. De tsjerke, dy't oarspronklik út fyftjinde ieu datearret, is in ryksmonumint (rm 9812)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wutsje, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2014 by Wutsje [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:140503_Martinikerk_Bolsward_Fr_NL.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinikerk3_Bolsward_interieur.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the font on the right [south] side of the chancel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150704021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font on the right [south] side of the chancel
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken September 1976 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_naar_het_oosten_-_Bolsward_-_20037523_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinikerk2_Bolsward_interieur.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of font in context - east side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150704017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037510_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of font in context - north side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150704015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037508_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 1975 by A.P. (Ton) van der Wal, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Bolsward_-_20037509_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19925BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Martinikerk / Martinitsjerke
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Groot Kerkhof 24, 8701 Bolsward, Netherlands -- Tel.: + 31 515 572 274
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Friesland
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, 10 km WNW of Sneek
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side of the chancel
Date: ca. 1446-1466?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Church Notes: medieval church expanded mid-15thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the later Mosan type, probably mid-15th century when the earlier church was expanded; it consists of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl, four human heads at 90-degree angles on the basin; the heads have been damaged and restored, and only one of them appears to have survived, that of a woman wearing head-dress of the period; between the head, on the sides, a torus-scotia-torus moulding; raised on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base. No font cover present. Like most of the fonts in the churches of this region, it is now placed at the east end of the nave.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.064514, 5.526389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 3′ 52.25″ N, 5° 31′ 35″ E
UTM: 31U 669279 5882431
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining