Amstenrade
Image copyright © Historie Schinnen, 2015
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in the Castle grounds in 1925; unfortunately the foliage impedes view of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historie Schinnen, 2015
Image Source: 1925 B&W photograph in the Historie Schinnen site [www.historie-schinnen.nl/images/Amstenrade/images/prevs/prev29.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the stem and lower base appear modern rather than re-tooled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1986 by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_(ROMAANS),_DETAIL_-_Amstenrade_-_20273932_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of basin
Scene Description: artist's rendition in Ligtenberg (1915)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Libgtenberg drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: 252)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arch or niche - blind - 8
Scene Description: very shallow carving
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1986 by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_(ROMAANS),_DETAIL_-_Amstenrade_-_20273934_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one seen here; all damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1986 by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_(ROMAANS),_DETAIL_-_Amstenrade_-_20273933_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken August 1971 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_-_Amstenrade_-_20010776_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2011 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amstenrade,_kerk_foto5_2011-09-27_16.28.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
Scene Description: the old font in the context of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 26 November 1986 by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_NOORDER_ZIJBEUK_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Amstenrade_-_20278473_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 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 26 November 1986 by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Amstenrade_-_20278471_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20204AMS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Rooms-Katholieke Parochiekerk / Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Onbevlekt Ontvangenk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary [former church dedicated to St. Gertrude]
Church Notes: earlier 14thC church dedicated to St. Gertrude; demolished mid-19thC; present church is 19thC neo-Gothic, extended 1932-1933
Church Address: Aan de Kerk 3, 6436 CT Amstenrade, Netherlands
Site Location: Limburg, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N298, just W of Brunssum, 7 km NW of Heerlen, 16 km NW of Maastricht, in the municipality of Schinnen
Additional Comments: altered font? (only the basin appears original, much damaged and re-tooled) / disused font (in 1925 it is shown being used as a garden ornament in Amstenrade Kasteel)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font partially illustrated and listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915). J.F. van Agt (1962) reports a font in the gardens at Amstenrade Kasteel: "In het park een ronde hardstenen doopvont, omstreeks 1200, vermoedelijk uit de oude kerk, versierd met vier koppen en acht primitieve driepassen." A 1925 B&W photograph reproduced in the Historie Schinnen site [www.historie-schinnen.nl/images/Amstenrade/images/prevs/prev29.jpg] [accessed 7 A December 2015] shows the font, half-covered in foliage, being used as a garden planter. The font may have been restored (?) to Amstenrade church in the 1930s restoration and expansion of the church. The font consists of a round basin with four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles; the heads are much damaged; the sides of the basin between the heads are decorated with a shallow arcade -or set of niches- two per side. The basin has been drastically re-tooled and the base appears modern. A metal insert is used in the font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 27 December 2015] for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 705728 5647155
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.939272, 5.928311
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 21.38″ N, 5° 55′ 41.92″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: metal insert, not a proper lining
Diameter (includes rim): 101-116 cm*
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 37 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)
REFERENCES
- Agt, J.F. van, Zuid-Limburg uitgezonderd Maastricht, Den Haag: Staatsdrukkerij- en Uitgeverijbedrijf, 1962, p. 37, 43
- 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. 164, 252