Hoogwoud / Hoechhoutswouder / Hogherswoude / Hougwoud
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: in 1967, after the final restoration of the old font
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in 1967, after the final restoration of the old font
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: the damaged basin caged in an iron frame in 1940
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1940, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115412_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: in 1949, after its first restoration
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1949, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115413_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: much restored now
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1950, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_vanuit_het_zuid-westen_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115400_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dqfn13, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 November 2014 by Dqfn13 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radboudstraat_1,_Hoogwoud.JPG] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the restored old font is visible on the left, by the pulpit
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken May 1960 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115406_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the restored old font is visible on the right, by the pulpit
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken May 1960 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115407_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the moulding and the stops on the lower base are original, though the whole font has been much restored
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - stop - 4
Scene Description: the moulding and the stops on the lower base are original, though the whole font has been much restored
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1967 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Hoogwoud_-_20115422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20151HOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Hoogwoud [St. Jans Geboorte?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the pulpit [not its original location?]
Church Patron Saint(s): [St. John the Baptist?]
Church Notes: iriginal church late-15thC; destroyed by a hurricane in 1674, but the late-15thC tower survived; re-built 1680; tower destroyed by fire 1886; restored 1966-1967
Church Address: Radboud straat 1, 1718CA Hoogwoud, Netherlands
Site Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N241, in the municipality of Opmeer, 9 km NE of Heerhugowaard
Historical Region: West-Vriesland / West Frisia
Additional Comments: damaged font; restored font
Font Notes:
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Moulin (1842) reports fragments of a font in Hoogwoud. Aa (1844) reports that an antiquarian had at one time offered 150 guilders for this baptismal font but the authorities forbade the sale [="Voor de doopvont te Hoogwoud is door eenen liefhebber van oudheden honderd vijftig gulden geboden, doch op hoog bevel mag die niet verkocht worden"]. It is not known when the offer was made but there is photographic evidence that this font was in a very poor condition in 1940, the badly broken basin kept together in a metal frame, the stem missing a good part of its top; a restoration of sorts must have been done soon thereafter, as the font was again photograph in 1949 and shows it had been reconstructed; the church itself underwent a major restoration in 1966-1967, at which time the font itself must have been restored once more, as a photograph of the font taken in August 1967 shows the font totally restored [cf. Images area]. It consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced flat moulding at the upper rim, with four human heads protruding at alternate sides; raised on an octagonal pedestal base, and a lower base of the same shape adorned with a moulding at the top, and four stops that make it square at the bottom. In 1967 it appears with a modern metal cover of low-dome shape, and a Chi-Ro finial. The font is also noted in Eyck (1846), who reports a local tradition that attributes great logevity to this font claiming the king Radbout had ben baptised in it by bishop Wulfram in the 8th century; Eyck (ibid.) himself dates towards the 14th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 630817 5842358
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 43' 3.48" N, 4° 56' 5.77" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Aa, A.J. van der, Aardrijkskundig Woordenbowk der Nederlanden, Gorinchem: Jacobus Noorduyn, 1844
- Eyck [Eijck], Frans Nicolaas Marius, "Kort begrip omtrent de oude doopvonten in ons land door Mr FN Eijck tot Zuylichem", Erste deel, Erste Aftevering, Berigten van het Historisch Gezelschap te Utrecht, 1846, pp. 223-228; p. 226
- Moulin, E., "De doopvont te Kampen", 1842, Overijsselschen Volks Almanak, 1842, pp. 93-96; p. 94