Valkenburg / Valkeberg
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valkenburg-H.H._Nicolaas_en_Barbara_(2).JPG] [accessed 22 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valkenburg-H.H._Nicolaas_en_Barbara_(1).JPG] [accessed 22 December 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valkenburg,_Kerk_HH_Nicolaas_%26_Barbara04.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: only a little of the veined marble basin is visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leo van Loo, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph September 2020 by Leo van Loo, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/valkenburg/nicolaas-en-barbara] [accessed 17 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20241VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Parochiekerk H.H. Nicolaas en Barbarakerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra & St. Barbara
Church Location: Kerkstraat 18, 6301BX Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off the N590, S of the A79, in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, about 10 km ENE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1600?
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: chapel/church first documented 1228; tower mid-13thC; church expanded 14thC; re-built 15thC; expanded 1891 and 1904; restored 1983
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed as a baptismal font made of veined (red&white) Belgian marble ca. 1600. Confirmed and partially illustrated in the entry for this church in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/valkenburg/nicolaas-en-barbara] [accessed 17 January 2022].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.864542, 5.831386
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 52.35″ N, 5° 49′ 52.99″ E
UTM: 31U 699239 5638581
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble [basin only]
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hemispheric dome with modern sculpted finial