Swolgen / Zwollege

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - biting its own tail (ouroboros)

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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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: some damaged

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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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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: two of them shown here

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the exterior in April 1957

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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: Click to view font notes

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; r["References"]

Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Drenthe en Overijssel", 16 (1996) and 16a (1997), Bulletin Stichting Drents-Overijsselse Kerken, 1996-1997