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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: B&W photograph taken Augsut 1954 by G.Th. Delemarre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Groessen_-_20092000_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one of them visible here

Image Source: B&W photograph taken Augsut 1954 by G.Th. Delemarre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Groessen_-_20092000_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2009 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groessen,_kerk_foto2_2009-07-26.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2012 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groessen,_de_Sint_Andreaskerk_RM14179_foto10_2012-07-22_17.38.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken Augsut 1954 by G.Th. Delemarre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Groessen_-_20091998_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph taken Augsut 1954 by G.Th. Delemarre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Groessen_-_20092000_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20208GRO

Church/Chapel: Rooms Katholieke Sint-Andreaskerk [aka Kathedraal van de Liemers]

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Dorpsstraat 7, 6923 AA Groessen, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Duiven

Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Utrecht (R.C.)

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic

Church Notes: original church here documented 838-845; present tower remains from earlier 1150-1180 church here; nave 15thC; re-built 1890-1891; re-built 1921; restored 1991-1992

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font illustrated in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, consisiting of an octagonal basin with four salient human heads located at 90-degree angles on the basin sides, the spaces between them decorated with a double moulding with a scotia between; plain rounded underbowl; octagonal-to-square pedestal base. No font cover present but the upper rim of the basin shows evidence of anchoring for an earlier cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.931592, 6.029344

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 53.73″ N, 6° 1′ 45.64″ E

UTM: 32U 295774 5757599

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]