Houten
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: with a scotia between them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Houten_-_20279152_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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human figure - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diana Nieuwold, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2017 by Diana Nieuwold
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human figure - female - wearing headdress - wimple
Scene Description: one of four heads on this basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Houten_-_20279152_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diana Nieuwold, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2017 by Diana Nieuwold
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human figure - male - head - wearing head-cover
Scene Description: one of four heads on this basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Houten_-_20279152_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: and the artistic metal top; not a font cover, nor a baptismal dish... beautiful workmanship, anyway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CONFOTO (Con van Staa Fotografie), 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in CONFOTO [www.confoto.nl/425050528/hersteld-hervormde-kerk-plein-houten] [accessed 9 December 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2012 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houten,_kerktoren_Nederlands_Hervormde_kerk_RM22662_foto3_2012-05-29_09.57.jpg] [accessed 9 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 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Houten_-_20279146_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 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 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Houten_-_20279145_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: with the font by the pulpit, as expected in a Nederlands Hervormde Kerk
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_ORGEL,_PREEKSTOEL_-_Houten_-_20279149_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Houten_-_20279152_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
![shown here by the Herenbanken, near the west end of the nave [the pulpit, not visible in this photograph, is just west of the font]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151209015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: shown here by the Herenbanken, near the west end of the nave [the pulpit, not visible in this photograph, is just west of the font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT,_HERENBANKEN_-_Houten_-_20279147_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of font base
Scene Description: the modern replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken 14 July 1992 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_-_Houten_-_20279152_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as expected in a Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, the font is very close to the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Magdelyns, Oud Houten weblog, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2012 by Frank Magdelyns, in Oud Houten weblog [www.oudhouten.nl/weblog/2012/09/kerk/] [accessed 9 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 20213HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Houten / Pleinkerk, Houten
Church Location: Lobbendijk 1, 3991 EA Houten, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Utrecht
Directions to Site: Located 9 km SE of Utrecht; the church is located in the Het Oude Dorp, the old town centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the pulpit
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: 13thC nave and chancel; expanded 16thC;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of Namur limestone consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, a double moulding with a scotia in between all around the sides; plain rounded underbowl; raised on a modern octagonal-to-square pedestal base. There is no font cover present; instead, there is tetrapod metal [copper?] ornament with a Sisyphus-like figure as finial.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 16 February 2022) notes: At Houten, there is the late gothic basin of a Mosan font. But the Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel I. De provincie UtrechtW. Leijdenroth, Utrecht 1908 also says that the pulpit stands on the base of a baptismal font of the 15th century. And the Monumenten in Nederland. Utrecht. Ronald Stenvert, Chris Kolman, Ben Olde Meierink, Margreet Tholens, Ben Kooij en Ronald Rommes, Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist / Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle 1996 goes a step further by saying that the basin and foot belong together. I don’t know yet if I can believe it. Stylistically it does not really fit.
Both texts date the basin at +/-1300, which is certainly not correct. It is probably 2 centuries younger [i.e., +/-1500]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0275, 5.161389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 39″ N, 5° 9′ 41″ E
UTM: 31U 648281 5766302
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]