Swolgen / Zwollege
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - biting its own tail (ouroboros)
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: a large leaf under each of the four human heads
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: some damaged
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding - 5
Scene Description: around the lower ends of the columns of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: two of them shown here
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the exterior in April 1957
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken April 1957 by G.Th.Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_-_Swolgen_-_20228443_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2007 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lambertuskerk_Swolgen.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken October 1955 by G.Th.Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_naar_het_noorden_-_Swolgen_-_20228444_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: undated artist's rendering
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Image Source: photograph taken October 1964 by G.Th. Delemarre of an undated drawing in the Gemeente Archief Maastricht [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur,_reproductie_van_tekening_in_bezit_van_Gemeente_Archief_Maastricht_-_Swolgen_-_20207015_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the church interior in 1957
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1957 by G.Th.Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_-_Swolgen_-_20228442_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: in 1929
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Image Source: photograph taken in 1929 by W.A. Hemsing, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerkinterieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Swolgen_-_20408294_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: in June 1919
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Image Source: photograph taken June 1919, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Swolgen_-_20228453_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: ca. 1915?
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 239) [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglitData/image/bulletin_knob1915/] [accessed 30 January 2016]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: in 1926
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Image Source: photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Swolgen_-_20228458_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20162SWO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Parochiekerk Sint-Lambertus
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Mgr. Aertsstraat 6, 5866 BH Swolgen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located N of Venlo, W across the German border from Geldern, in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Roermond [formerly in the Diocese of Liege]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 30 January 2016] for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: present church was chiefly 15thC with 13thC foundations from an earlier building; destroyed in 1944; re-constructed in 1953 incorporating only a part of the old chancel
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who notes that only the basin is original, and gives the location as being in the northwest corner of the nave at the time. Noted in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Mosan group, a round basin on multiple support base. Baptismal font of limestone consisting of a round basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, their lower part in the shape of laege leaves; the font side panels also carved [we only know about one of them, a large dragon regardant biting its own tail]; raised on a a pedestal base made of a broad round shaft and four slender colonnettes at the angles; the square lower base has moulded bases for all five columns, the outer side of the base of the angle colonnettes decorated with a leaf. [NB: the church was practically destroyed in 1944; the font survived but shows evidence of restoration, and Ligtenberg [cf. supra] had identified the stem and lower base as modern ca. 1915]. The metal [brass?] font cover is dome-shaped, with an orb-and-cross finial; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.491745, 6.116965
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 30.28″ N, 6° 7′ 1.07″ E
UTM: 32U 299863 5708453
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 102 x 120 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
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 and fig. 6 p. 239
Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Drenthe en Overijssel", 16 (1996) and 16a (1997), Bulletin Stichting Drents-Overijsselse Kerken, 1996-1997