Horssen No. 2

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animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: passant to the right

Image Source: B&W photograph taken February 1976 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragment_van_doopvont_in_de_voormalige_oude_parochiekerk_van_Horssen_-_Horssen_-_20117347_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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design element - motifs - plant or tree

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view of building exterior

Scene Description: the Commanderie van Sint Jan (Sint Janshuis), Nijmegen, where the font fragment is now housed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Tubantia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commanderie_St._Jan_Nijmegen.JPG] [accessed 9 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the early-20thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2010 by Piet [www.flickr.com/photos/pietbron/4507043155] [accessed 9 December 2015]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior in context

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

view of church exterior in context

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 20212HOR

Museum and Inventory Number: Commanderie van Sint Jan (Sint Janshuis), Nijmegen

Church/Chapel: [fragment now in the Commanderie van Sint Jan (Sint Janshuis), Nijmegen]

Church Location: [coordinates are for the Commanderie in Nijmegen]

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Horssen is located in the municipality of Druten, 10 km NW of Wijchen

Font Location in Church: in a museum

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: early-20thC (1909-1910) church built opposite Sint-Bonifatiuskerk

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Schulte (1986) [www.dbnl.org/tekst/schu211land02_01/schu211land02_01_0007.php#180] [accessed 9 December 2015]: "In de collectie van museum ‘Commanderie van Sint Jan’ in Nijmegen bevindt zich een sculptuurfragment, dat afkomstig heet te zijn uit Horssen (afb. 147). Het is een kuipfragment van een romaanse doopvont waarop een naar rechts lopende gestileerde leeuw is afgebeeld, begrensd door een rechte omlijsting en een gestileerd leliemotief". The fragment appears to be a little smaller than a full side of a round basin that could very well have had heads on it, as the top right hand corner suggests; framed at top and bottom by flat mouldings, the right side appears to be a thin pillar or piping, whereas the left is broken off; the main motifs is a lion passant to the right, its tail over its haunches, in the typical pose; at the extreme left is a plant or tree, part of the trunk and two large leaves still visible. The fragment is said to be originally from Horssen.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.848889, 5.864444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 56″ N, 5° 51′ 52″ E

UTM: 31U 697288 5748111

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: fragment

REFERENCES

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