Breust in Eijsden / Breusd / Breusj / Bruest / Brust
Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
Results: 13 records
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant
Scene Description: seen here facing right between the two corner leaves; now hard to discern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Mathieu Theunissen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Mathieu Theunissen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
view of base
Scene Description: artist's rendition ca.1915
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ligtenberg (1915)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of base
Scene Description: the lower base of an earlier font here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Breust_-_20042348_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timpaan_in_torenportaal_-_Breust_-_20042335_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of church exterior - portal - tympanum - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken September 1888 by A. Mulder, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren,_Latei_-_Breust_-_20042334_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eijsden,_Martinuskerk_foto3_2011-09-10_10.33.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 in 1953, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_en_naar_het_westen_-_Breust_-_20042337_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_en_naar_het_westen_-_Breust_-_20042338_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
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view of church interior - tower - portal - tympanum
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240122017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Mathieu Theunissen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1953, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Breust_-_20042348_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Mathieu Theunissen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mathieu Theunissen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Mathieu Theunissen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 August 2023)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20207BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Martinuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Von Geusauplein 3, Breust, 6245 GC Eijsden, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten, and is now a neighbourhood of Eijsden
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font [base only]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman and to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 27 December 2015] for his help in documenting this font. We are also grateful to Mathieu Theunissen for his photographs of this font and the medieval tympanum of the church
Church Notes: church here in mid-10thC; destroyed 1393;
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915) as the base of an earlier font in this church, later re-used to accommodate a round pedestal base and a hemispherical basin of much later date. Ligtenberg (ibid.) places it in the sacristy of the church ca. 1915 [no measurements given]. The lower base remains relatively whole; it is of the type that would belong to a square table-top type of font supported on a broad central shaft and four slender angle colonnettes; the round mouldings are well defined and have the large lanceolated leaf at each angle; harder to discern is at least one fabulous beast on one of the sides; possibly a dragon [cf. ImagesArea]. The original font, of which no other information has turned up, may well have been one that had human figures or heads at the angles and other motifs on the sides. The tower portal has a lintel that has been dated to the second half of the 12th century, and the remains of the old font may well belong to the same period.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.778561, 5.710244
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 42.82″ N, 5° 42′ 36.88″ E
UTM: 31U 691066 5628703
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped; arb-and-cross finial
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; p. 164 and fig. 4