Epe in Vaassen / Eepe

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BH01: human figure - male - head - wearing headdress

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 1 May 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT,_HARDSTENEN_KOP_-_Epe_-_20291479_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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BH02: human figure - female - head - wearing headdress

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BH02: human figure - male - head - wearing headdress

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BH04: human figure - female - head - wearing headdress

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 1 May 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/INTERIEUR%2C_DOOPVONT%2C_HARDSTENEN_KOP_-_Epe_-_20291482_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: with a scotia between them

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2014 by Pa3ems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epe_-_Grote_kerk_-_2014_-008.JPG] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 1 May 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_OVERZICHT_TOREN_,_WESTZIJDE_-_Epe_-_20291453_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: photograph taken 1 May 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_ORGEL_-_Epe_-_20291476_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in Eyck (1846: fig. no. 12)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: during the recent restoration

Image Source: digital photograph in the Hervormde Gemeente Grote Kerk Epe [www.grotekerkepe.nl/fotogalerie/category/1-restauratie] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: during the recent restoration

Image Source: digital photograph in the Hervormde Gemeente Grote Kerk Epe [www.grotekerkepe.nl/fotogalerie/category/1-restauratie] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font in the foreground, left [south] side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 May 1994 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Epe_-_20291459_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: ca. 1964?

Image Source: 1964 postcard (?) in Prentbriedkaarten-Verzemelaar de Louizerbrink-Epe [www.lohuizerbrink-epe.nl/collectie/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=17&products_id=540] [accessed 29 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20187EPE

Church/Chapel: Nederlandse Hervormde Grote Kerk Sint-Martinus

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Hoofdstraat 76, 8162 AL Epe, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located 16 km N of Apeldoorn, 20 km S of Zwolle, in the municipality is Vaassen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the E end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: church here documented 1176, but tower may be earlier (1125-1150)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of "Blaauwen" stone and Mosan type noted and illustrated in Eyck (1846). Listed in the Monumentenregister of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [ref.: 15328] [http://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/php/main.php?cAction=show&cOBJnr=15328] [accessed 29 December 2015]: "en hardstenen doopvont (XV)". The font was made of Namur limestone probably in the late-15th century; it consists of an octagonal basin with a double moulding at the upper side, with four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles; moulded underbowl; octagonal pedestal base. There is no cover present. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 2 June 2022) informs: There seems to be inconsistency about the date of the re-discovery of the font’s basin and of the base. If you compare the sketch of the font (1862) with the recent picture, you will see that the column and base have changed. Maybe it has to do with the facts described in “Eigen Haard” below. After the separate re-discovery of the basin and the base, both wandered and the basin was also temporarily used as a flower pot. a) In “Ampt Epe – Historical society for Emst-Epe-Oene-Vaassen – number 154, December 2005” on pages 35-38, the font is described. b) A print of the website http://www.grotekerkepe.nl/fotogalerie/1-restauratie/detail/37-restauratie?tmpl=component: The bluestone baptismal font, which has remained virtually intact, dates from the second half of the 15th century. The lid is missing. It is suspected that the “Gerfkamer” of the church used to be the baptistery, where the baptismal font once stood. After the Reformation, the baptismal font was no longer used and was lost for years, until it was found in 1893 in the “reader's house”. It served – placed upside down – for the readers as an elevation on which they stood. This “reader's house” was a shelter on the north side of the choir, between two buttresses, where all kinds of public announcements were "read" on Sunday after the mass service, such as: marriage announcements, sales, leases or announcements from the government. This practice was called “making known by church talk”. After some wandering, the baptismal font was placed on the choir in 1962 to be used again for the purpose it was made for. c) A print of “Eigen Haard, n°41, 1893”: On the church square we still find a relic from earlier days. In a small coniferous park is placed the old stone baptismal font, which was formerly situated at the entrance of the church. It is of stone, octagonal in shape, decorated at the four protruding corners with human heads. It is a pity that the base is missing and that a less attractive vase-shaped base of cement has been placed under the trough instead. The plan is to remedy this wrong. This is possible, because the base still exists. When Werrner Haasloop visited Epe around 1856, it was already lying 'neglected on the road in the western part of the village'. It now lies neglected next to a dung heap of a farm. It takes a nice walk there, along a path through the cornfields, along oak ramparts and dirt roads. Not far from the gravel road to the Oldenbroeksche camp and the Delle estate, we find the farm with its mossy thatched roof, its barns and haystacks, and the picturesque sheepfold, and there lies the pedestal, neglected, but still well preserved. It is strange that, when placing the font in the church square, people did not prefer to use the original base, but instead made a new base underneath it, which does not correspond at all to the style of the basin. The baptismal font, meanwhile, does not seem too old, at least quite a bit younger than the oldest part of the church and the tower. Based on the type of stone and processing, Eyck van Zuylichem considers it to be from the 15th or 16th century. In such a case, the church is much older. d) The discovery of the baptismal font is described and shown in “Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam” of 1862. The font’s basin was in the tower of the church. The base was found by Werner Haesloop on a public road in the village.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.332845, 5.987929

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 19′ 58.24″ N, 5° 59′ 16.54″ E

UTM: 31U 703575 5802263

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Eyck [Eijck], Frans Nicolaas Marius, "Kort begrip omtrent de oude doopvonten in ons land door Mr FN Eijck tot Zuylichem", Erste deel, Erste Aftevering, Berigten van het Historisch Gezelschap te Utrecht, 1846, pp. 223-228; r["References"]

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"]