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animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4

Scene Description: very stylised

Image Source: B&W phototograph taken February 1971 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romaans_doopvont_-_Heemse_-_20104212_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - heart-shaped on its side

Scene Description: a band of into a pattern that resembles a stylised braid

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2009 by PeHa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.LambertuskerkHeemse.JPG] [accessed 5 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Scene Description: the old font is partially visible in the foreground, left side

Image Source: B&W phototograph taken January 1978 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preekstoel_en_orgel_-_Heemse_-_20104249_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2015]

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font ca. 1915; Ligtenberg stated he could not take measurements of the basin depth as it was full of soil at the time

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 168 fig. 15)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is located by the pulpit, a common placement in the Reformed churches of the Netherlands

Image Source: B&W phototograph taken February 1971 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preekstoel_-_Heemse_-_20104213_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 December 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is located by the pulpit, a common placement in the Reformed churches of the Netherlands

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20198HEE

Church/Chapel: Sint-Lambertuskerk / Sint-Lambertuskarke

Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]

Church Location: Scholtensdijk 24, 7771 CV Hardenberg, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 523 266 744

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Overijssel

Directions to Site: Located S of the N34, in the municipality of Hardenberg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the pulpit

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font?

Church Notes: first Christian church here said to have been founded in the mid-8thC by missionaries Lebuinus and Marcellinus on or near the site of a pagan sacrificial site; wooden church ca. 1200, re-built in stone in the 15thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Eyck (1846) mentions early fonts at Oldenzaal, Heemse, Loosduinen and Schokland, that are now lost [NB: he was probably referring to the font from the 8th-century church here]. Ortt van Schonauwen (1858) mentions a Bentheim font from this church having been for a long time used as a water-trough in the rectory garden. Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a sandstone baptismal font of the Romanesque period. A font here is noted in Drake (2002) as having a variant type of heart motif from others in the Bentheim School. The font, which is very worn around the upper rim, as well as on the sides, consists of the quasi-cylindrical tub-shaped basin typical of many Bentheim fonts of the period, the sides decorated with a running vine, a plain double rol moulding below, and a pattern of heart-like motifs below; this latter element is what Drake [cf. supra] points out as a variation; it resembles a chain of hearts on their sides, each pointed tip fitting into the opening of the next one; one could suggest that it is a stylised form of the braid or double-rope pattern so common in many of the Bentheims; does this stylising oof an earlier motif make it a later work? The base is more traditional within the types of Bentheim fonts, four stylised lions at 90-degree angles from a cylindrical stem, on a quadrangular lower base. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.569491, 6.601444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 34′ 10.17″ N, 6° 36′ 5.2″ E

UTM: 32U 337448 5827084

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): 85 cm*

Basin Total Height: 39 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163) [NB: Ligtenberg notes he was unable to measure the depth of the basin as it was filled with soil and flowers]

REFERENCES

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

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"]

Ortt van Schonauwen, J., "Oude Doopvonten", Vierde Deel, Derde Serie, Kronijk van het Historisch Genootschap Gevestigd te Utrecht, 1858, pp. 143-152; r["References"]