Roden / Roderwolde / Roon / Roterwolde

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animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a rendering of the fragment of a lion head from the base of the font at Roden; now at the NAD museum depot in Nuis [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a drawing [presumably in one of the NAD sources] provided by Pol Herman

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animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: the fragment of a lion head from the base of the font at Roden; now at the NAD museum depot in Nuis [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 8 October 2019 by Joost Limburg

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: although badly damaged and with heads broken off, the animals can be identified by the hind legs still discernible

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 15 July 1991 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Roden_-_20268231_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: badly damaged as well

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette, etc.

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base

Scene Description: much damaged

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: showing the damaged lions at the angles

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: showing a damaged angle lion

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - rim - detail

Scene Description: according to a local source the scrapings taken from the font were gounded into a powder and used for curative or prophylactic remedies

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin and cover

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view of basin and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2009 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catharinakerk_Roden.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1991 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_ZUIDGEVEL,_WESTGEVEL_-_Roden_-_20268198_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover are located on the left [north] side, across the nave from the pulpit, as it was in 1991

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1991 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Roden_-_20268206_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the illustration in W.L. Schiffer's ‘Oude doopvonten in Drenthe met 5 platen’, Nieuwe Drentsche Volkalamanak (1885: 120-133) shows that the heads of the base lions were already missing at that time

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in W.L. Schiffer, ‘Oude doopvonten in Drenthe met 5 platen’, Nieuwe Drentsche Volkalamanak (1885: 120-133) [accessed 5 January 2022

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view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of font and cover - southwest side

Scene Description: as it was in 1991

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1991 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Roden_-_20268231_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the font in about the centre of the image

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of font and cover in context - south side

Scene Description: the font on the north side of the nave; the chancel arch on the right [east], as it was in 1991

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 15 July 1991 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_MIDDENSCHIP_VANAF_TRIOMFBOOG_NAAR_HET_NOORDEN_-_Roden_-_20268219_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 10 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20170RIJ

Museum and Inventory Number: for a time in a Drents Museum in Assen -- base head fragment at the NOORDELIJK ARCHEOLOGISCH DEPOT at Nuis

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Catharinakerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]

Church Location: Brink 8, Roden, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Noordenveld, in Drenthe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the N side of the chancel arch

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, group Hage a. Type I [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his photographs, and to him and Pol Herman for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: church here documented 1139 -- listed church in the Rijksmonumentenregister [Monumentnummer: 32543]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

An illustration in W.L. Schiffer, ‘Oude doopvonten in Drenthe met 5 platen’, Nieuwe Drentsche Volkalamanak (1885: 120-133) already shows that the lion heads on the supporting base had already been severed by that date. Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who gives the location in a museum in Assen; he notes traces of red paint on it. A 1952 ink drawing of this font in the Collectie Deodatus, is listed and illustrated in the Drents Archief [ref.: DA023910061] [www.drentsarchief.nl/beeldbank/35d80757-2e9c-4f1b-887d-783f3a3353f1] [accessed 10 December 2015]. Drake (2002) lists a font at Roden in group Hage a. Type I, of the Bentheim School [listed in this group are the fints at: Berum (F), Forlitz-Baukirchen, Hage, Kappeln, Keitum, Ohne, Roden, Westochtersum and Wesuwe); the font is listed under Germany, but it must be the one listed in the Encyclopedie Drenthe as being in the Catharinakerk, Roden [aka Roon], in the Netherlands province of Drenthe. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with, from top down: a double-roll moulding [not a rope in this case], a vine with several types of foliage, including palmettes, another double roll moulding [not a rope, either], and a band of fan palmette pattern; the base is round at the centre ring with much-damaged moulding, becoming square at the bottom; on the sides are four bulges at 90-degree angles; these 'bulges' can be identified as seating lions by their hind legs still discernible despite the damage inflicted on them, as heads and parts of their bodies have been lost. No font cover present, but there is evidence of anchoring spots from an earlier font cover at the upper rim of the basin. Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 25 January 2016] has: "For many years the font stood in the Drents Museum, before it returned to the church. The head of one of the lions is kept in the NAD in Nuis (Groningen)". [cf. BSI entry for Roderwolde for the 14th-15thC font there]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 26 December 2021) confirms the font base head fragment at the NOORDELIJK ARCHEOLOGISCH DEPOT at Nuis [Inventory number : 1986-IX.6]; description: Stone: sandstone carved lion's head from and matching the baptismal font of Roden (H 1884-1). Date: 13th century. Material : Font. Location: Roden. Period : Middle Ages Late: 1050 - 1500 AD. Acquisition : Was once part of the baptismal font NH-church at Roden. Purchased from Mr. H.J. Klaassens, Kostvlies 59 in Gasselte. Literature : Vilsteren, V.T. van, “Bijna op de kop af.....” In: NDV 103 (1986), p. 142-144. Beeldenstorm in Drenthe ? In: Drents Museum Journaal 2, nr. 3 (1986), p. 1-2.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.135664, 6.434178

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 8.39″ N, 6° 26′ 3.04″ E

UTM: 32U 328363 5890438

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Blentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 86 cm*

Basin Depth: 29 cm*

Basin Total Height: 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163)

LID INFORMATION

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"]

Steensma, Regnerus, "Bentheimer doopvonten en wijwaterbekkens in Nederland", 23, Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek, 2007, pp. 1-18.