Maastricht No. 5 / Maestricht
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "MOSA-tegel met een afbeelding van de Sint-Nicolaaskerk en de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwebasiliek in Maastricht, naar een tekening van Jan de Beijer uit 1740. / MOSA decorated tile with a depiction of the Saint Nicolas Church and the Church of Our Lady in Maastricht, after a drawing of Jan de Beijer from 1740."
view of church exterior - apse
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apsis_Onze_Lieve_Vrouwkerk_Maastricht.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2010 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLV-01.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20098MAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Basiliek van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Tenhemelopneming / Onze Lieve Vrouwebasiliek / Sterre der Zee
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 9, 6211 HD Maastricht, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Maastricht is N of Liège, in the Limburg province.
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Roermond
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: early church here may have existed in the 4th-5thC; present church built chiefly 11th-12thC; became collegiate by 1100; elevated to Baslica Minor in 1933
Font Notes:
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The present font here is the work of Jehan Aert van Tricht, and was originally from the demolished Sint-Nicolaaskerk nearby [cf. Index entry for Maastricht No. 4 for that font].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8475, 5.693611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 50′ 51″ N, 5° 41′ 37″ E
UTM: 31U 689614 5636324