Weerselo / Het Stift
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in July 1931 -- is that another stone font partially visible on the right?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251623_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in July 1931
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251622_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in February 1913
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken February 1913, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251621_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - braid or double rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - braid or double rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns
Scene Description: round arches on very short columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: in some of the arches of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: in some of the arches of the arcade
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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henkdikkerhupkes, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by Henkdikkerhupkes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskerk_noordzijde,_het_Stift_11,_monument_nr_38415.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henkdikkerhupkes, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2012 by Henkdikkerhupkes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskerk_zuidzijde,_rijksmonument_nr_38415.JPG] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G-w-g, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by G-w-g [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:38415_Weerselo_Stiftkerk_interieur-1_08.JPG] [accessed 5 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: church interior in 1935: a uncluttered east end of the church, with the font near the pulpit, an arrangement common inside the Dutch Reformed Protestant churches
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1935, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Weerselo_-_20251628_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the church interior in July 1962; a later font and cover are seen here at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151129012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the church interior in July 1962; a later font and cover are seen here at the far [west] end, left [south] side
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1962 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_met_orgel_-_Weerselo_-_20251630_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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human figure - seated - 4
Scene Description: very stylised, at the angles of the round-to-square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken July 1931, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Weerselo_-_20251624_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 29 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20165WEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Hervormde Kerk / Stiftskerk Weerselo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius [originally]
Church Notes: original chapel here became part of a 13thC monastery; became parish church 15thC; Protestant since 1626
Church Address: Het Stift 9, 7595 LE Weerselo, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 541 661 229
Site Location: Overijssel, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Loacted in Het Stift, off (W) the N343, 6 km NW of Oldenzaal, in the municipality of Dinkelland [formerly in the municipality and 2 km NW of Weerselo]
Additional Comments: disused font in the garden as water trough / later (1934-1935 restoration) returned to the church / moved [moving?] font (even at the east end its position was shifted several times)
Font Notes:
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Medieval baptismal font listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915). In Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the "Bentheim School, Berge b. Type II", a group of fonts that includes those at Alfhausen, Badbergen, Bippen, Borken, Heek, Lathen, Nordherringen, Salzbergen, Schapen, Schepsdorf, Südkirchen, Utrecht (Katharinenkonvent), Weerselo, Wettringen and Wissel. The fonts in this group, adds Drake (ibid.) can be characterised as being similar to those in the Berge a. Type I, "but here the fan-frieze is interrupted, not in any consistent pattern, by arcading, frontal human heads and rosettes. The arcading may be round-headed (Weerselo) or horseshoe (Alfhausen) [...] or consist merely of columns without arches (Südkirchen); it may be empty or may contain heads or rosettes." No font cover present, but the upper rim of the basin shos evidence of earlier anchors for an old font cover. [NB: a series of photographs in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [cf. Images area] shows how often the font was moved about inside the church, none of which positions would have been the original one in medieval times]. [cf. BSI entry for Vroomshop for a later font possibly from Weerselo originally]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 353110 5802789
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.355683, 6.843052
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 21′ 20.46″ N, 6° 50′ 34.99″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*
Basin Depth: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163)
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 74, 177
- 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. 163
- Steensma, Regnerus, "Bentheimer doopvonten en wijwaterbekkens in Nederland", 23, Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek, 2007, pp. 1-18.