Laag-Keppel / Kasteel Keppel
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design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Laag-Keppel_-_20128341_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]
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view of base
![not known when this became the base for the medieval basin -- was the composite object ever used as a font, or was it put together in the castle as someone's contribution to a Kunstkabinett? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151209026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: not known when this became the base for the medieval basin -- was the composite object ever used as a font, or was it put together in the castle as someone's contribution to a Kunstkabinett? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of an undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Laag-Keppel_-_20128341_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]
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view of building exterior
Scene Description: Kasteel Keppel, in the village of Laag-Keppel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2015 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20150410_Kasteel_Keppel1.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font as displayed in one of the [trophy?] rooms at Kasteel Keppel; date unknown
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Laag-Keppel_-_20128341_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20214KEP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kasteel Keppel
Church Location: Dorpsstraat Lk 41, 6998 AA, Laag Keppel, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 314 381 316
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Gelderland
Directions to Site: Kasteel Keppel is located in the village of Laag-Keppel, municipality of Bronckhorst
Font Location in Church: Inside the castle, to the right of the doorway
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg and to Pol Herman for their help in documenting this font and for the YouTube reference
Church Notes: the castle is owned by the Pallandt van Keppel Foundation, and is occupied by the family that has owned it since the 14thC -- listed [Rijksmonument no. 528692]
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in E.H. ter Kuile (1958) with the caption "Huis Keppel Doopvont". The object appears to be a composite font that uses a re-cycled fragment of an inscribed column; on it is a basin from a medieval font, the sides decorated with very large and shallow pointed arch-heads, the underbowl flat and plain, with a short plain stem that appears to be part of the same block as the upper volume; there is a much-damaged moulding below the upper rim, the rim itself also missing chunks of stone, some of which may be related to anchoring areas for an old font cover. We have no further information on how or when the composite object was put together, nor do we know whether it was originally related to the castle at all, or was brought in perhaps from an abandoned church in the area. A 2013 YouTube video [www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9FxWukaGfM] [accessed 13 April 2016] shows the old font the font is still there, inside the mansion, wrong-footed and all, serving as a vase, to the right of the doorway.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.993539, 6.227139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 36.74″ N, 6° 13′ 37.7″ E
UTM: 32U 309632 5763950
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Kuile, E.H. ter, Het kwartier van Zutfen, Den Haag: Staatsdrukkerij- en Uitgeverijbedrijf / Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, 1958