Horssen No. 1

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: on one of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1981 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_detail,_romaans_doopvont_-_Horssen_-_20427970_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 4-petal - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: an odd sort of a quatrefoil, formed by four acanthus (?) leaves forming a quatrefoil

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1981 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Horssen_-_20427972_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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human figure - head - male - 4

Scene Description: they all appear to be male

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 January 2011 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horssen,_kerk_RK_foto4_2011-01-16_15.04.jpg] [accesed 9 December 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the old parish church on the left; Sint-Bonifatiuskerk on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 January 2011 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horssen,_de_twee_kerken_foto2_2011-01-16_15.00.jpg] [accesed 9 December 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the three churches of Horssen; the reformed church in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2008 by Vincent Steenberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horssen_NL_3_churches.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1981 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_koor_-_Horssen_-_20427964_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-katholieke Sint-Bonifatiuskerk: Interieur, doopvont (opmerking: Gefotografeerd voor de geïllustreerde beschrijving: Het Land van Maas en Waal, door A.G. Schulte)"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1981 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Horssen_-_20427972_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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view of font base

Scene Description: the modern replacement base and lower base, much in the style the original would have been

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1981 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Horssen_-_20427972_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20211HOR

Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Bonifatiuskerk [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]

Church Location: Kerkpad 2, 6631AB Horssen, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Druten, 10 km NW of Wijchen

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, NW corner

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Church Notes: Archimon [www.archimon.nl/gelderland/horssenbonifatius.html] [accessed 9 December 2015] notes: "Of the three churches in Horssen, the St. Bonifatius is the oldest. Little is known about its architectural history. A previous church was mentioned in the 13th century, most likely a Romanesque one-aisled building with a narrower, straight choir." Disused 1908-1937; served as community centre until 1974; back to spiritual uses thereafter.

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Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915). Schulte (1986) writes: "Doopvont. Totale hoogte 103 cm, diameter kuip 106 cm; Naamse steen; xiii. Voet en stam met vier zuiltjes nieuw, 1910. Vierkant basement, waarop geschulpt geprofileerd voetstuk; ronde stam met vier ronde zuiltjes; ronde kuip met vier uitstekende maskers; tussen de maskers drie keer een bladmotief en eenmaal een kop tussen ranken; rond bolvormig deksel met bol en kruisje. De rand van de bak is met cement gerepareerd." This font may be the one entered in Drake (2002) as "Horsen", among a group of Mosan fonts with round bowls on multisupport bases. Other than some cement repair finishes around the top rim, the basin of this font is original; the rest of the font, a central shaft, four outer colonnettes and a square lower base are modern though much in the expected style corresponding to the basin. As indicated in Schulte above, there are four well-rendered heads at 90-degree angles, although the usual leaf beneath the head has become practically a shelf here; between the heads three of the sides have a four-petaled rosette in very elaborate tracery made up of four acanthus (?) leaves that form a quatrefoiled frame of sorts; the fourth side is a stylised lion head with vegetation stemming from the mouth, two acanthus (?) leaves similar to those framing the rosette on the other sides. There is no font cover present but the inner well of the basin has a metal insert, presumably modern

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.851146, 5.662215

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 4.13″ N, 5° 39′ 43.97″ E

UTM: 31U 683352 5747833

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: metal insert; modern?

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 87 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 105 cm* / 106 cm**

Basin Total Height: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): `103 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164) / ** Schulte (1986)

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"]

Schulte, A.G., Het Land van Maas en Waal, Den Haag: Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, 1986