Burg op Texel No. 2 / Burg / Den Burg, Texel
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design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken March 1954 by Slinger, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restant_van_oude_doopvont_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045815_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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human figure - male - head - bearded - negroid features
Scene Description: before the restoration; there is another head partially visible at the extreme left
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken March 1954 by Slinger, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restant_van_oude_doopvont_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045815_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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symbol - star - 6-point
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken March 1954 by Slinger, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restant_van_oude_doopvont_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045815_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken April 1963 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_naar_het_noord-westen_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045821_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of church exterior - west façade
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken April 1963 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_west-gevel_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045820_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the font at the middle of the east end -- the church had just been restored after the damage caused by WWII
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1953 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045801_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the nave fully restored; April 1963; the font has been moved to the foot of the pulpit, a common location in this area
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken April 1963 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045819_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font
Scene Description: before its restoration
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken March 1954 by Slinger, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restant_van_oude_doopvont_-_Burg,_Den_(Texel)_-_20045815_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 July 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: during its restoration; the darker area is the addition by the restorers
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19930BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk De Burght
Church Patron Saints: [originally dedicated to St. John the Baptist]
Church Location: Binnenburg 2, Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Holland
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Texel on the island of the same name, 12 km N of Den Helder
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the pukpit [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[fragment -- restored], Late Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original church here 11thC; re-built in part in the 16thC; damaged in WWII; restored 1953
Font Notes:
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Ortt van Schonauwen (1858) writes of a very damaged and eroded octagonal font from the Hervormde Kerk at Burg op Texel; he mentions the heads, oak leaves and rosettes as part of the ornamentation. Fragment of a baptismal font in this church, probably dated to the late-15th or 16th century restoration of the old Romanesque church of the 11thC here; the fragment was photographed immediately before the restoration and it consisted on the lower part of an octagonal basin that had large foliage motifs, stars and two human heads visible on it, one of which has clear negroid features; the font was also photographed immediately after the restoration by adding a large area above the break point. The font was then placed by the side of the pulpit, as it is customary in many of the Protestant churches of the area.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 3' 16" N, 4° 47' 52" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal [restored]
REFERENCES
Ortt van Schonauwen, J., "Oude Doopvonten", Vierde Deel, Derde Serie, Kronijk van het Historisch Genootschap Gevestigd te Utrecht, 1858, pp. 143-152; p. 146