Schin op Geul / Shin
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: two of the fours heads
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken 2 December 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20272191_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schin_op_Geul-Kerk.JPG] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2001 by J.P. de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_keermuur_van_het_kerkhof_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20330898_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: photograph taken 11 July 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20267758_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20267109_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was displayed in July 1919
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1919, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20197649_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: artist's rendering ca. 1915
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Image Source: drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: 241 fig. 12)
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 2 December 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Schin_op_Geul_-_20272191_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20161SCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Parochiekerk Sint-Mauritius
Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Location: Kerkplein 1, 6305 BB Schin op Geul, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located now in the municipality of Valkenburg-Houthem
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower in 1915
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: church here documented by 1145, but a church may have existed here in the 11thC; re-built (?) 1926
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who gives the location as being beneath the tower. Baptismal font made of limestone; it consists of a round basin with four human [male?] heads set at 90-degree angles; raised on a broad cylindrical pedestal base and a circular splaying lower base. The present metal cover, low-dome and round, with cross finial, is modern. The upper rim of the basin has at least one metal staple remaining from an earlier cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.855119, 5.871372
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 18.43″ N, 5° 52′ 16.94″ E
UTM: 31U 702093 5637643
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 84 x 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 164, 241 fig. 12
Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Drenthe en Overijssel", 16 (1996) and 16a (1997), Bulletin Stichting Drents-Overijsselse Kerken, 1996-1997