Sint-Nicolaasga / Sinte Nyclaesga / Sint Nyk

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view of basin

Scene Description: the 1933 font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 October 2008 by C.S. Booms, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'33_-_Sint_Nicolaasga_-_20532768_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the 19th-century R.C. church in Sint Nicolaasga

Image Source: digital photograph taken February 1972 vy A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_-_Sint_Nicolaasga_-_20163942_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the 19thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2007 by Udo Ockema [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_Nicolaaskerk_Sint_Nicolaasga_08c.JPG] [accessed 1 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the H. Hartkerk of The Hague during the demolition process in 1974

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Wisherhof, reproduced in Reliwiki [http://reliwiki.nl/index.php?title=Bestand:Den_Haag_H_Hartkerk_sloop_in_1974.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 1933 font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 October 2008 by C.S. Booms, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'33_-_Sint_Nicolaasga_-_20532769_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1933 font and cover in the baptistery

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the 1933 font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20101NIC

Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke parochiekerk Sint-Nicolaaskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Kerkstratt 14, Sint Nicolaasga, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Friesland

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of De Friese Meren

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Church Notes: late-Gothic church here; present R.C. church is late-19thC -- the Protestant church here is late-18thC (where was the late-medieval church here?)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font was cast in bronze in Utrecht in 1932-1933, in the medieval style of the best tradition of Dutch and German font making; it consists of a round slightly tapering basin with large scenes on the sides (the Flood and Noahs ark, Abraham' sacrifice, etc.; it is supported on the shoulders of four large kneeling human figures identified as prophets by scrolls; conical font cover with more biblical scenes on it, a running Latin inscription around the lower rim; round platform with another inscription supports a Baptism of Christ scene as finial; above the finial is a loop to which a crane arm or a pulley end would be attched to raise the cover. Originally from the H. Hartkerk of The Hague; when that church was demolished the font was moved to the late-19th century R.C. Sint-Nicolaaskerk, in Sint Nicolaasga, Friesland. The font is located inside the church, in the baptistery. [NB: there was a late-medieval church in Sint Nicolaasga, but we have no information on the font of that church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.923386, 5.744382

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 55′ 24.19″ N, 5° 44′ 39.77″ E

UTM: 31U 684483 5867274