Sleen

No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

Results: 10 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the base

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - braid

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - braid

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

design element - motifs - vine - geometric

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Op deze detailafbeelding is ondanks de zware beschadiging nog te zien dat de leeuwen die de kuip ondersteunen de staart op hun rug dragen."

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2014 by Pa3ems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleen_Hervormde_kerk_2014_-007.JPG] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2013 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Hervormde_kerk.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 20171SLE

Church/Chapel: Hervormde Kerk, Sleen (ook Grote Kerk)

Church Location: Brink 7, 7841 CE te Sleen, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N376 road, just E of the Schaapstreek, 7-8 km W of Emmen. Sleen is now merged into the municipality of Coevorden

Historical Region: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Type Sögel I, Sögel [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: the font at Emmen is similar but smaller [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: original wooden church replaced by stone building ca. 1100; present church -probably the 3rd on the site- is 14th-15thC church listed in Rijksmonumenten [Monumentnummer: 33779]; major restoration 1962-1966

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of Benthein sandstone consisting of a slightly tapering round basin made of Bentheim sandstone; its design matches the classification assigned in Drake (2002) as "Bentheim School; Type Sögel I, Sögel", which includes fonts at Damme, Greetsiel, Grimersum, Kantens, Rijsen, Sleen, Sögel, Thuine and Uphusen. Noted and illustrated in J. Knottnerus / Oude Drentse Kerken in beeld [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/sleen_15.htm] [accessed 18 November 2018], who informs that the font was discarded to the pastor's garden and used as a planter in the Reformation; it was loaned to the Drents Museum in 1888, and returned to the church in 1988. The basin is decorated with, from top down, a braid, a rather geometric vine, a second braid, and a scrolled acanthus vine; the round-to-square base has a moulding atop, a round central stem with four couchant-regardant lions set at 90-degree angles, and a square lower base; the smirking lions have their tails thrown over their rumps. The font is in a fair state of conservation, given its treatment through the centuries; there is significant damage to the upper rim. probably where metal staples secured an old cover. There is no cover present now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.775993, 6.802712

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 46′ 33.58″ N, 6° 48′ 9.76″ E

UTM: 32U 351787 5849616

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002