Monnikendam / Monnickendam

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 4

Scene Description: on two of the sides of the basin: northwest and southeast -- each of the flowers stems forth diagonally from a square in the centre of the panel

Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1978 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Monnickendam_-_20160154_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 2

Scene Description: one each, on the north and south sides of the base [NB: orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken August 1978 by Gerard Dukker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Monnickendam_-_20160154_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil - leaf - 4

Scene Description: on two of the basin sides: southwest and northeast -- the four leaves are on the internal ends of the foils

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design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: on four of the sides: east, west, north and south

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human figure - female - head - wearing headdress and wimple

Scene Description: on the east side of the base [NB: orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]

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human figure - male - head - wearing hat

Scene Description: on the west side of the base [NB: orientation is approximate] [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Nicolaaskerk1_Monnickendam.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: photograph by C. Steenbergh of a print by A. Rademaker, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prent_van_de_Nieuwe_Poort_-_Monnickendam_-_20160035_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font stands in the nave, towrds the south arcade, near the foot of the pulpit

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: only the upper rim of the font can discerned in the sea of chairs, just right [south] of the pulpit

Image Source: photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_westen_met_preekstoel_en_orgel_-_Monnickendam_-_20383268_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: the panels on the north, northwest, west and southwest sides of the basin are visible here

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1951, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Monnickendam_-_20160090_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: the panels on the northwest, west and southwest sides of the basin are visible here

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view of font in context - northeast view

Scene Description: the panels on the east, northeast and north sides of the basin are visible here

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view of font in context - west view

Scene Description: the west side of the font in the nave, looking east

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_oosten,_gezien_vanuit_het_middenkoor_met_stenen_doopvont_op_de_voorgrond_-_Monnickendam_-_20383266_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20154MON

Church/Chapel: Grote of Sint-Nicolaaskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: De Zarken 2, 1141 BL Monnickendam, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 (0)299-652141

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Holland

Directions to Site: Located on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 8 km SE of Purmerend

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the pulpit [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Ortt van Schonauwen (1858) mentions an octagonal font of "Mergel" or "Breemer" stone that used to be in the Reformed Church at Monnickendam; disused at some point it was used to mix mortar from which it graduated to a storage basin for the heating coal of the church in a corner beneath the tower; OvS (ibid.) suggests a 13th-century date for it. This font is mentioned in Saintenoy's Prolégomènes... (1891-1892 ) chapter on "Les fonts monopédiculés", without further particulars. The font is described and illustrated in the parish church web site [www.grotekerkmonnickendam.nl/EN/Visit-the-Grote-Kerk/Highlights.html] [accessed 26 November 2015]: "The font is made from a single piece of sandstone and is 96 cm high and has a diameter of 99 cm. The bowl is octagonal and decorated with diamond tracery and with hearts and lilies. On two sides of the four-sided pedestal there are a man and a woman's head and on the other two roses are displayed. The font probably dates back to the 13th century and would have probably been used in Monnickendam’s first church. In the 19th century the Rijksmuseum unsuccessfully tried to acquire the font on a number of occasions. The font stood in the baptistery of the church up to 1644, then under the tower, from 1866 in the choir, later in the north-west corner of the church and since 1969 in the place it is now. The font was also used for many years for the preparation of lime mortar and a place to keep the coals for the foot warmers used during the church services. The font is now once again used for what it was originally intended - baptisms." The base is actually round, with four panels cut into it; decorated with the two humand heads at opposite ends, and large roses on the remaining sides, all deeply carved. There is no font cover present now, but the groove around the inner basin upper rim suggests a cover was used or intended originally.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.45671, 5.03225

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 24.16″ N, 5° 1′ 56.1″ E

UTM: 31U 638083 5813779

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*

Notes on Measurements: *

REFERENCES

Ortt van Schonauwen, J., "Oude Doopvonten", Vierde Deel, Derde Serie, Kronijk van het Historisch Genootschap Gevestigd te Utrecht, 1858, pp. 143-152; r["References"]

Saintenoy, Paul, "Prolégomènes à l'étude de la filiation des fonts baptismaux, depuis les baptistères jusqu'au XVIe siècle", 5-6, Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, 1891-1892, pp. 5 (243-281; 6 (69-157); r["References"]