Poederoijen / Poederooien

Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

Results: 16 records

animal - unidentified - head

Scene Description: one of four heads, some animal, some human?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1911 by G. de Hoog, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Poederoijen_-_20407283_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four heads, some animal, some human

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1911 by G. de Hoog, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Poederoijen_-_20407283_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

information

Scene Description: "Zen Burg Texel" [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: [original source unknown -- received from Pol Herman 23 August 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of basin in context

Scene Description: as photographed in September 1911; the old font had been damaged on 13 July 1897 by a major fire in the church, and had been discarded to a neighbouring farm where it was used as a water-trough

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1911 by G. de Hoog, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Poederoijen_-_20407283_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: in August 1897, a month after the major fire; the ouline of the roof of the nave clearly visible here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1897, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren_na_de_brand_-_Poederoijen_-_20182599_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JHGS, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2009 by JHGS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poederoijen_-_Maasdijk_42_-_Nederlands_Hervormde_kerk.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of church exterior - tower - west side

Scene Description: as photographed in September 1911; the church had been damaged by a major fire on 13 July 1897

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 7 September 1911 by G. de Hoog, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren_gezien_vanuit_het_westen_-_Poederoijen_-_20407282_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: the photograph must have been taken right after the 13 July 1897 fire

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden, 2015

Image Source: undated photograph reproduced in the Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden site [www.vierheerlijkheden.nl/cms/index.php/de-4-dorpen/poederoijen/111-de-hervormde-kerk] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: artist's rendering of the church before the 1897 fire

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden, 2015

Image Source: undated drawing [original source unknown] reproduced in the Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden site [www.vierheerlijkheden.nl/cms/index.php/de-4-dorpen/poederoijen/111-de-hervormde-kerk] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font

Scene Description: a reconstruction

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image of a drawing (G, de Hoog Hz.) provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image Source: [received from Pol Herman 23 August 2022 -- asked him for source for crediting]

Copyright Instructions: Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image Source: [received from Pol Herman 23 August 2022 -- asked him for source for crediting]

Copyright Instructions: Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 2022 by P.A. Lokkerbol

Copyright Instructions: Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image Source: [received from Pol Herman 23 August 2022 -- asked him for source for crediting]

Copyright Instructions: Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

view of font in context

Scene Description: The baptismal font from the old church after the 13 July 1897 fire; in the Buck family garden [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden, 2015

Image Source: undated photograph reproduced in the Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden site [www.vierheerlijkheden.nl/cms/index.php/de-4-dorpen/poederoijen/111-de-hervormde-kerk] [accessed 28 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of fragment

Scene Description: "Maasbree" [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.A. Lokkerbol, 2022

Image Source: [received from Pol Herman 23 August 2022 -- asked him for source for crediting]

Copyright Instructions: Image received via received from Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 August 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20160POE
Church/Chapel: Sint-Johanneskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Maasdijk 42, HP 5307 Poederoijen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Gelderland
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Zaltbommel, on the Breda-Utrecht road, 9-10 km SE of Gorinchem
Font Location in Church: [at Amsterdam's Het Nieuwe Verbond? [cf. FontNotes]]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font, and to P.A. Lokkerbol for his photographs of the font [received via Pol Herman]
Church Notes: original church renovated 1836; burnt down 13 July 1897
The Parish web site [www.hervormdpoederoijen.nl/event-category/church-events/] [accessed 28 November 2015] informs that when a major fire damaged the church on 13 July 1897 the stone font was relegated to a neighbouring farmer's garden, where it it served as water trough. An undated photograph in the Stichting de Vier Heerlijkheden site [www.vierheerlijkheden.nl/cms/index.php/de-4-dorpen/poederoijen/111-de-hervormde-kerk] [accessed 28 November 2015] taken soon after the fire shows the font, basin and pedestal base, in the garden of a local family, but by September 1911 the basin alone is shown discarded in a field, though Vermeulen (1974-1975) reports both the base, and the basin decorated with human and animal heads as being located in a field near the church at the time. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 21 March 2022) informs that the Bulletin Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken, 2001, najaarsnummer, jaargang 27, “Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Gelderland”, by Schönlank-van der Wal, page 8 : claims that the font now in the Het Nieuwe Verbond, in Amsterdam, now holds the font formerly from Poederoijen. [cf. BSI entry for Amsterdam No. 5] A further communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 23 August 2022) notes: "Today I received pictures of the font in the church “Het Nieuwe Verbond” at Amsterdam. If you compare the damage to the basin, you will observe that this is indeed the baptismal font of Poederoijen. Mosan, Gothic, but not very late. 15th century ? Watch the ear on one of the heads. This is rather rare. I saw it on the lost fragment of De Burg op Texel and on the fragment of Maasbree."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.785584, 5.08071
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 8.1″ N, 5° 4′ 50.56″ E
UTM: 31U 643516 5739239

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: hemispherical dome, ball finial; counterweight from ceiling

REFERENCES

Vermeulen, F.A.J., De Bommeler- en de Tielerwaard, Arnhem: Gijsbers & Van Loon, 1974-1975