Enschede No. 2 / Anescede / Eanske / Enscende
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Scene Description: the old font in the gardens of Landgoed Het Stroot, in October 2019
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Scene Description: the old font in the gardens of Landgoed Het Stroot, in October 1994
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 17 October 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_DOOPVONT_IN_PARK_-_Enschede_-_20287135_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
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Scene Description: the old font in the gardens of Landgoed Het Stroot, in August 1983
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1983 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_als_tuinvaas_-_Enschede_-_20071375_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of basin - upper view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - braid or double rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Scene Description: Landgoed Het Stroot, in which gardens the old font is located
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1983 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voorgevel_-_Enschede_-_20071359_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 30 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
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Scene Description: an object in a nearby property
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Google, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image from Google maps supplied by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20184ENS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A2 [Drake]
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: In the gardens of the Villa Het Stroot
Church Address: [NB:address of Villa Het, where the font is located] Strootsweg 401, 7547 RW Enschede, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 53 428 1231
Site Location: Overijssel, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located W of Hengelo, a few kms from the German border, not far from Bentheim. The Villa is located in the hamlet Twekkelo N of the village Boekelo to Strootsweg 401 in Enschede
Additional Comments: disused font / damaged font / re-cycled font (a garden ornament in a private villa) -- MUST USE -- HAVE PHOTOS
Font Notes:
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Noted with some measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a sandstone baptismal font of the Romanesque period. This object, now in the gardens of Landgoed Het Stroot, a private villa in the hamlet of Twekkelo, consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a nicely executed vine all arround its middle, with a braid or double rope pattern below; the upper part of the basin is worn or broken off, and there may have been more ornamentation on that part; it is raised on a plain pedestal stone and a splaying square lower base, both of which are not part of the original font. We have found photographic evidence that places the font at that location between 1983 and 1994 [cf. Images area], but no other information on its origin or previous location. Joost Limburg interviewed the present owner of the property and communicated to BSI [e-mail of 9 October 2019]: "The current owner of the property told me that his grandfather received it as a gift from his brother J.H. van Heek sometime in the 1920s. The textile industry in the region had made the Van Heek family very wealthy, and J.H. was an art and antiquities collector. This font came from a farmer somewhere in Twente or Westphalia, who was happy to trade it for a new trough. Where the farmer had found or bought it is not known."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 27 December 2015] for his photographs and help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 351036 5787996
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.222222, 6.819167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 20″ N, 6° 49′ 9″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 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, 75, 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.