Horst in Horst aan de Maas No. 1 / Berkelo / Haors / Hôrs

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2 - intertwined

Scene Description: one of two basin sides with this theme; in a regardant pose, as if about to bite their own tails

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph taken by C. Steenbergh, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20117433_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2 - intertwined

Scene Description: one of two basin sides with this theme; in a regardant pose, as if about to bite their own tails

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1927, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20117367_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette - 2 - linked

Scene Description: one of two basin sides with this theme; a well-rendered motif with two linked palmettes; the spandrel between the two is decorated with a triquetra-like motif; the head in the centre appears bearded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph taken by C. Steenbergh, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20117433_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: three of them are visible in this photograph; the heads at the right and left appear similar, wearing similar head gear

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph taken by C. Steenbergh, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20117433_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of base

Scene Description: although this particular photograph is undated in the source, it was probably taken ca. 1927 -- the base, with the possible exception (?) of the broad central shaft, is modern, even if it somewhat resembles the general shape of what must have been the original one

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph taken by C. Steenbergh, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20117433_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the new church built in the 1950s

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Els Diederen, 2008

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 January 2008 by Els Diederen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HaorskèrkBoostenwkped08.JPG] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: the old church in 1927; it was blown up by the German army in 1944; the remaining ruins were demolished in 1946

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1927 by W.A. Hemsing, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_westgevel_-_Horst_-_20117359_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1927, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_vanuit_het_zuid-westen_van_de_hoofdbeuk_-_Horst_-_20117362_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: although the photograph is undated, the ruins stood only between the blowing up of the church in 1944 and the demolition of the ruins in 1946

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Image Source: undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_van_de_verwoeste_kerk_-_Horst_-_20364770_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1915?

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Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 239 fig. 8)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old font and cover in the new church in 1996; they survived the destruction of the church in 1944

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1996 by Paul van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_het_doopvont_-_Horst_-_20401905_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20201HOR
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Lambertuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Sint Lambertusplein 16, 5961 EW Horst, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 77 398 1416
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas
Font Location in Church: The font is now located in the baptistery of the new church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font
Church Notes: church first documented 1219; tower added 1400; church and tower blown up by German army 22 November 1944; demolished 1946; new church built 1952
Listed and illustrated with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who mentions a modern replacement base. In Drake (2002) as a font made of Gotland limestone. The Kerkgebouwen in Limburg entry for this church [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/horst/lambertus] [accessed 6 December 2015] notes: "Doopvont, kuip XII d, Naamse steen, geelkoper; XIXB. De piscinazuil is nieuw. Vierkant voetstuk waarvan de rondingen meelopen met de zuilen; hierop de piscinazuil omgeven door vier zuiltjes ronde kuip met vier gebogen velden door vooruitspringende koppen gescheiden en doorstrengelde draken en masker versierd; rond torendeksel met sierranden en gegraveerde bladversiering; een neoromaans baldakijn met spits toelopend dak; het deksel is opgehangen aan een geheel modern ijzeren smeedwerk, versierd met een draak die ineenkrimpt." Baptismal font of Namur limestone consisting of a round tapering basin decorated with palmette foliage motifs and with intertwined dragons on opposite sides between four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles; the heads wear at least two types of head gear; one (?) of the the faces appears to have a beard; the four heads have the characeristic large leaf support that appears on some of the fonts of this type; the base consists of a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all plain; the lower base is square, with mouldings that accommodate the five pillars of the base; all (?) of the base appears to be a later replacement, and was in place in the 1927 photographs available at the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. The present font cover, a brass conical hood that is topped by a round arcade with its own smaller conical hood; the top of the smaller hood was hooked to a chain hanging from a wall-mounted swing-arm crane which is still visible in pre-1944 photographs; this crane must have been destroyed in 1944; the present replacement crane is made of wrought iron and has a dragon motif at the place where it hooks to the font cover. The medieval font is now located inside the new church, in the baptistery.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.452075, 6.054356
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 27' 7.47'' N, 6° 3' 15.68" E
UTM: 32U 295 340 5704215

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 99 x 123 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: yes [cf. FontNotes]
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"]